Greetings all,
I'm back to work after a 5 month school break, and have again picked up our
network usage project pretty much where it was left off. I've been playing
around with the CVS version of Ntop from yesterday with limited success
(runtimes of between .5 to 2.5h+ on a ~3Mbit line on a RH 7.1 box before
coredump). I have a few questions:
1. I've noticed that the Thruput is now the Network Load. Has the issue of
kB vs kb in the graph scale been corrected as well?
2. Is there a changelog to go with the CVS daily snapshot that I'm just not
seeing? This would be most handy to get an idea of the bugs fixed/changes
made on a daily basis. A list of open issues would be good for people to
start helping track these bugs down as well.
3. Is there an ETA on the release of the next stable version/snapshot? I'm
looking to deploy Ntop at about 15 sites and am deciding whether to wait for
a new stable, go with a CVS version that looks good or use the most recent
stable release.
4. When I use hosts.deny and .allow I can no longer access Ntop from the
local machine. I've tried different ways of including the local host in
hosts.allow (localhost, actual IP) but with no luck. Help?
5. Two things I need is logging and alerting. Basically I want to create a
database (and graphs) with all the hosts on the network and their usage
based on protocol (http, FTP, mail, total) for the last month or so. The
problem I see with this is keeping the hosts list up to date. Has anyone
done anything like this with any success? Also, I'd like to be passive in
my monitoring, have Ntop alert me when a host is exceeding it's threshold
level for usage of a specific protocol or total bandwidth.
6. Is Ntop what I'm looking for, or is there a better solution? Although I
wasn't really paying much attention the last several months, I did keep a
home subscription to the list. I don't really see a lot of activity and it
makes me wonder if perhaps people have jumped ship?
Thanks everyone.
--
Dan Colquhoun
Information Services
Open Text
519-888-7111 x2482
I'm back to work after a 5 month school break, and have again picked up our
network usage project pretty much where it was left off. I've been playing
around with the CVS version of Ntop from yesterday with limited success
(runtimes of between .5 to 2.5h+ on a ~3Mbit line on a RH 7.1 box before
coredump). I have a few questions:
1. I've noticed that the Thruput is now the Network Load. Has the issue of
kB vs kb in the graph scale been corrected as well?
2. Is there a changelog to go with the CVS daily snapshot that I'm just not
seeing? This would be most handy to get an idea of the bugs fixed/changes
made on a daily basis. A list of open issues would be good for people to
start helping track these bugs down as well.
3. Is there an ETA on the release of the next stable version/snapshot? I'm
looking to deploy Ntop at about 15 sites and am deciding whether to wait for
a new stable, go with a CVS version that looks good or use the most recent
stable release.
4. When I use hosts.deny and .allow I can no longer access Ntop from the
local machine. I've tried different ways of including the local host in
hosts.allow (localhost, actual IP) but with no luck. Help?
5. Two things I need is logging and alerting. Basically I want to create a
database (and graphs) with all the hosts on the network and their usage
based on protocol (http, FTP, mail, total) for the last month or so. The
problem I see with this is keeping the hosts list up to date. Has anyone
done anything like this with any success? Also, I'd like to be passive in
my monitoring, have Ntop alert me when a host is exceeding it's threshold
level for usage of a specific protocol or total bandwidth.
6. Is Ntop what I'm looking for, or is there a better solution? Although I
wasn't really paying much attention the last several months, I did keep a
home subscription to the list. I don't really see a lot of activity and it
makes me wonder if perhaps people have jumped ship?
Thanks everyone.
--
Dan Colquhoun
Information Services
Open Text
519-888-7111 x2482