Topic: ntop replacement app?

[Cyrus Bharda]

Howdy yall,

Just wondering if anyone has heard of linuxprobe

http://www.objectplanet.com/Probe/

From site:
This free network monitor and protocol analyzer gives you an instant picture of the traffic situation on your network and enables you to monitor network traffic in real time, hunt down, identify, and isolate traffic problems and congestions on your network.

All traffic is monitored in real time and presented to the user as a combination of tables and charts, giving detailed information about hosts and protocols, as well as an instant overview of the traffic situation on your network.

All the information can be searched, sorted, and filtered by protocols, hosts, conversations, and network interfaces. With the click of a button you can see individual usage of specific protocols, how much traffic each user generates, and which sites on the Internet they have visited.


I have downloaded the windows version of this app and it looks really great, and there is a "linux" version but I wouldnt have the foggiest on where to start to see if it is compatible with SME.

If it all works like it supposed to then this is definatly a ntop replacement!

Cyrus Bharda

[rjamestaylor]

Thanks for the suggestion. I just installed netprobe (in addition to the required Java JRE from Sun [1.4.1 at that]) and this tool works great.

[Cyrus Bharda]

So you just downloaded the linux version abd that other package, installed both and then what, where is it accesses from, what does it show?? I was unable to download it as I have not yet got an email back from them,

Cyrus Bharda

[rjamestaylor]

Yes, I grabbed the 1.4.1 JRE from Sun (the RPM.bin; you have to run the .bin to perform the click-through license agreement) and the emailed link from the netprobe people. Running the application discloses the URL to access the interface. Very nice application.

[Cyrus Bharda]

Where do I get 1.4.1 JRE, Sun's website? How do you install a bin file, do you just run it like a normal rpm, rpm -Uvh *.bin ??

Thanks,

Cyrus Bharda

[Cyrus Bharda]

Ok got the netprobe-0.4.tar file and went and found JRE j2re-1_4_1_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin and downloaded all 22MB of it

Now how do I install a rpm.bin file, Do I install it just like any other rpm file,  rpm -Uvh j2re-1_4_1_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin  ??

Thanks

Cyrus Bharda

[Cyrus Bharda]

Oh and how do we get it to start automatically on boot, in the installation instructions it says to start it by typying ./netprobe start eth0 so do we need to edit a template somewhere to add this into the SME version of windoh's startup, which I do not know the name of or where it is

Cyrus Bharda

[Cyrus Bharda]

Alright got it all setup, now I just need to know how do I get this program to start automatically when I reboot the system?

Cyrus Bharda

[DJ_Ramjet99]

Any chance of a nice how-to on contribs.org?

It's been a loooooooong time since I used my Linux skills

[Cyrus Bharda]

I am working on a howto as we type, just wait till Monday and contribs.org should have one

Cyrus Bharda

[Cyrus Bharda]

OK Well I have a howto but dont know if it is good enough, so I will post it to the dev-info list and get more critisism on it and once I get it right then it will be available on contribs.org  

Cyrus Bharda

[Cyrus Bharda]

Well I have finished it, see threads:

http://www.e-smith.org/bboard//read.php?f=1&i=25783&t=25783

or

http://www.e-smith.org/bboard//read.php?f=3&i=28974&t=28974

For more info!

Cyrus Bharda