Install and configure ntop for network stats, monitoring

ntop is one of the most powerful and easy to use tool for network traffic statistics viewing and analysis.

Here are quick steps to install it on CentOS 5.2 box (upgraded from 5.0 release).

Try to install in easy way:

$ yum install ntop

Most probably yum get failed for missing dependencies such as rrdtool package. If this is the case, download and install this package manually:

$ cd /usr/src
$ wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rrdtool/rrdtool-1.2.23-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
$ rpm -ivh rrdtool-1.2.23-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm --nodeps

I’ve used –nodeps option in rpm command to ignore any dependencies. Yum will take care of that, we just need rrdtool as of now.

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November 29th, 2008 | Posted in Monitoring, Security | 1 Comment