How to Install NtopNG on Linux Mint 20

To Install NtopNG on Linux Mint 20

Introduction:

NtopNG is the future version of the ntop. It is a network traffic probe that monitors network usage based on libpcap and has been written in a compact way in order to virtually run on every Unix platform, MacOSX and on Windows and is used for High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection.This tutorial will cover the installation of ntopNG on Linux Mint 20.

Installation Procedure:

First check the version of Linux Mint OS

root@LinuxHelp:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Linuxmint
Description:	Linux Mint 20
Release:	20
Codename:	ulyana

Now update the Packages by using the following command

root@LinuxHelp:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease              
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Fetched 5,262 kB in 7s (761 kB/s)                                                                                         
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
403 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

Once the update is completed then install the ntopng by using following command

root@LinuxHelp:~# apt install ntopng -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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Setting up ntopng (3.8+dfsg1-2.1build3) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ntopng.service → /lib/systemd/system/ntopng.service.
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.13.1-2ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (245.4-4ubuntu3) ...

The installation is completed then add the connection name to the default configuration file on NtopNG by using following command

root@LinuxHelp:~# vim /etc/ntopng.conf 

Once the configuration is completed then restart the ntopng service by using following command

root@LinuxHelp:~# systemctl restart ntopng

Now add the NtopNG port Firewall by using following command

root@LinuxHelp:~# ufw allow 3000
Rules updated
Rules updated (v6)

Switch your browser and enter your IP address along with the port This is the welcome page of NtopNG and enter your credentials here Change the password here

This is the dashboard of NtopNG and here you can see the upload and download speed Here you can see the upload and download size of hosts Here you can see the upload and download size of ports With this method, the installation of NtopNG on Linux Mint 20 is comes to an end.