New Package: ntopng

JohnnyBeGood

Thank you so much jimp!
I thought I will never see ntop on pfSense anymore.
I was on 2.2-ALPHA August 9 and it was not showing up under packages then I updated to the latest Aug 15 version and its still not there, any suggestions?

jimp

It won't compile right now on 2.2, the port is broken on FreeBSD 10.x. The ntopng author is working with the port maintainer to get it corrected.

jimp

I'm trying to get it to compile in various ways but no success yet.

JohnnyBeGood

Thanks jimp! I appreciate your efforts!
Can't use v2.1.4 on my Shuttle DS437 because nics are not supported.
At least there's some hope :D

finalcut

Great an thank you

hope squid3-dev become supported by pfsense and more stable

jimp

It's live now on 2.2. Works fine on my test VM anyhow. Give it a spin.

finalcut

It does not see my lan nic

muswellhillbilly

Interesting. I installed this on a test machine with two physical NICs and the menu options for NTOPNG appeared under my Diagnostics menu. It showed traffic flowing from my internal NIC without any problem. I then installed it on my production system and can't see the ntopng men item under the Diagnostics menu at all! Both machines are running pfSense 2.1.4. The only real difference between both boxes is that my production system is operating a captive portal and my two internal NICs on the production system are set as VLANs sharing the same physical network card. So my first question is why isn't the Diagnostics menu showing the ntopng items? My second query is whether ntopng will work with a VLAN-tagged NIC bound to a physical NIC? I can get the ntopng page to load (port 3000), but it's monitoring only the outside network card and no other NICs are available as options.

I appreciate this is an alpha release, so I won't set my hopes too high that this might be resolved soon.

finalcut

The package work great ,,, the problem was from me

Thanks again

JohnnyBeGood

In deed this a 800lb Gorilla!
It works and I love it. Only one thing that does not work is a GeoMap it looks like it needs to be compalied with geolocation but that's not a big deal.

_NOTE

Browser reported home map location [Latitude: xx.3581782, Longitude: -xxx.03674879999998]
In order to visualize maps you must:
Have a working Internet connection.
Have compiled ntopng with geolocation and started with it.
Have active flows between peers with public IP addresses.
HTML browser geolocation is used to place on map hosts based on unknown locations._

tester_02

My geolocation seems to work. It shows everything coming from my city and shows the routes to the major feeds.

this new ntop is visually a complete rewrite and way over the top of what I expected.

JohnnyBeGood

@tester_02:

My geolocation seems to work. It shows everything coming from my city and shows the routes to the major feeds.

this new ntop is visually a complete rewrite and way over the top of what I expected.

I'm assuming for geolocation you didn't need to change anything?

muswellhillbilly

I've now re-installed the updated version (1.1v0.1 to 1.1v0.2) on my test machine to see if the problem was with the update. It seems it is! The latest version of this package fails to update the Diagnostics menu on the 64-bit pfsense system I'm running and also breaks the uninstall process as well. I'm going to try to see if I can do a manual uninstallation of the package and see whether I can get the older version of ntop to work any better.

From what I could tell, ntopng looks very good and has huge potential. The package installation needs a bit of tweaking, though.

jimp

The menu works fine on my 32 and 64-bit installs. I tested install and uninstall and they all worked cleanly. I tried 2.1.4, 2.1.5 (coming soon), and 2.2 and I had no issues here.

If the menu failed then the install probably never completed properly. Try it again but watch the messages very carefully when installing.

The only difference between the new version of the pkg was a change on startup to allow 2.2 to function since it had a different path for one program.

BeerCan

@jimp:

We can't take direct donations anymore. It's not quite enough for a Gold subscription or I'd say just get one of those. But you can pick up some stuff from the pfSense store with that and you'll get some swag out of it on top of us getting a cut. :-)

Jimp
This is working great for me . . thanks. Because you can't take the bounty, I donated the money to ALS with a thanks to pfSense forum. (I am already a gold membership holder)

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yefryf

Recently I've installed ntopng in my pfsense firewalls and It's really a good tool, thank for the package.

I am reading and investigation to learn more about this tool and I would like to know if it is possible to upgrade the ntopng's version to 1.2. By the way, when I access to the dashboard it showing the attached message.

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Cino

@jimp thanks again for taking the time to create this package…

couple of things,

1 Should we have to worry about this error in the system log?


ntopng: [Prefs.cpp:408] ERROR: Unable to create log C:\Windows\Temp/ntopng.log

2 I should read the manaul but there isn't much under the admin menu as far as configuration. I was hoping to re-name the interfaces to laymen names.

2.1.4-RELEASE (i386)
built on Fri Jun 20 12:59:29 EDT 2014
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p16

Mr. Jingles

@jimp:

We can't take direct donations anymore. It's not quite enough for a Gold subscription or I'd say just get one of those. But you can pick up some stuff from the pfSense store with that and you'll get some swag out of it on top of us getting a cut. :-)

Could I ask, Jim: why can't people donate anymore? I know I did last year, and suddenly it was gone. I bought a Gold to support (and buy you all a beer ;D ) but I kept on wondering: why did you remove the donations? It is people wanting to show their appreciation, and some money seems better than no money (but then again, this is the stupid economist speaking here: if there is anything we don't understand, it is money ;D ;D ;D ).

Guest

Eeehm, sorry for the mildly intelligent question, but: on my nano 2.1.4 boxes there is no ntop or ntopng package available in the list… What's wrong here? :o

jimp

@yefryf:

I am reading and investigation to learn more about this tool and I would like to know if it is possible to upgrade the ntopng's version to 1.2. By the way, when I access to the dashboard it showing the attached message.

Not until 1.2 shows up in FreeBSD ports. I'm told it's being worked on.

@Cino:

1 Should we have to worry about this error in the system log?
ntopng: [Prefs.cpp:408] ERROR: Unable to create log C:\Windows\Temp/ntopng.log

I don't think it's worth worrying about

@Hollander:

Could I ask, Jim: why can't people donate anymore? I know I did last year, and suddenly it was gone. I bought a Gold to support (and buy you all a beer ;D ) but I kept on wondering: why did you remove the donations? It is people wanting to show their appreciation, and some money seems better than no money (but then again, this is the stupid economist speaking here: if there is anything we don't understand, it is money ;D ;D ;D ).

I don't know the nitty gritty details, but since we're not a non-profit organization, taking donations in that way has some weird tax/legal issues. The beancounters said it caused more trouble than it was worth.

@chemlud:

Eeehm, sorry for the mildly intelligent question, but: on my nano 2.1.4 boxes there is no ntop or ntopng package available in the list… What's wrong here? :o

ntop isn't compatible with NanoBSD installs, only full installs.