Install ntopng on Fedora 27

1. Install Fedora Server 27 -64 version

In ‘Software Selection’, choose: ‘Fedora Custom Operating System’ without any sub selections.

Add a root password.

When the installation is done, reboot and login as root, and run the following commands:

$ dnf -y update
$ dnf -y install dkms log4cplus htop vsftpd numactl libpcap pciutils lshw ntpdate kernel-devel libbson network-tools

Static interface IP address:

$ vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eno1

Configure the static IP addresses to the file:

BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=192.168.1.xxx
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
DNS1=192.168.1.1
DNS2=8.8.8.8

Disable SELINUX:

$ sed -i 's/^SELINUX=.*$/SELINUX=disabled/' /etc/selinux/config

2. Install epel

The official command is as below:

sudo yum install epel-release

Alternatively, you can:

$ wget https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/fedora/epel//7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-7.noarch.rpm
$ sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-7-7.noarch.rpm

3. Install associated packages

$ sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools”
$ sudo yum install libpcap-devel glib2-devel GeoIP-devel libxml2-devel libcurl-devel redis autoconf automake sqlite-devel

or, more detailed installation:

$ sudo yum install subversion autoconf automake autogen libpcap-devel GeoIP-devel hiredis-devel redis glib2-devel libxml2-devel sqlite-devel gcc-c++ libtool wget libcurl-devel pango-devel cairo-devel libpng-devel git

4. Install ntopng

ntopng installaion

$ git clone https://github.com/ntop/ntopng.git
$ cd ntopng
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure

// Maybe informed by missing nDPI

$ cd ..
$ git clone https://github.com/ntop/nDPI.git
$ cd nDPI
$ ./autogen.sh
$ make
$ cd ../ntopng
$ make

// make install
// “MySQL libraries not found….”

$ yum list \*mysql\* | grep dev

// Install all the mysql programme listed, $ sudo yum install ***

$ /usr/bin/gmake geoip
$ make
$ make install

5. Configure ntopng

Create configuration file：

sudo -e /etc/ntopng/ntopng.conf

Edit configuration file:

-G=/var/tmp/ntopng.gid
--local-networks=192.168.1.0/24
--interface=eth0 --http-port=3000

6. Initiate ntopng

Before running ntopng, run redis first
Officially execution:

$ wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-3.2.2.tar.gz
$ tar xzf redis-3.2.2.tar.gz
$ cd redis-3.2.2
$ make
$ src/redis-server

Optional initiation:
// Operation in Fedora/centos, enter the folder /src/, make test

$ cd src
$ yum install tcl
$ make test
$ ./redis-server

// Check if initiated

$ cd ~/ntopng***/
$ sudo ./ntopng

// There might be errors, user cannot get access to a folder, try command as below.

$ sudo ./ntopng --dont-change-user

// Declare interface want to be monitored

$ ./ntopng -i ens2f0 -i ens2f1 –-local-networks “192.168.1.0/24” -–dont-change-user

References

[1] http://packages.ntop.org/centos-stable/