[Software Monitoring] Ntop
Category
Network Monitoring Software, Free Monitoring Software
Product Review
It’s suitable network monitor software for mikrotik. ntop is a monitor software that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does. ntop is based on libpcap and it has been written in a portable way in order to virtually run on every Unix platform and on Win32 as well.
ntop users can use a a web browser (e.g. firefox) to navigate through ntop (that acts as a web server) traffic information and get a dump of the network status. In the latter case, ntop can be seen as a simple RMON-like agent with an embedded web interface. The use of:
- a web interface
- limited configuration and administration via the web interface
- reduced CPU and memory usage (they vary according to network size and traffic)
make ntop easy to use and suitable for monitoring various kind of networks.
System Requirement
- Unix (including Linux, *BSD, Solaris, and MacOSX)
- Win32 (Win95 and above including Vista and windows 7)
Download
- Virtually compile on Unix/Win 32 Platform
- SVN server with Ntop Code
- Binary on Unix and Windows Demo version
- Third Party for Network Security Tools
Plus
- Has ability to Analyze IP traffic and sort it according to the source/destination
- NetFlow (including v5 and v9) and IPFIX support
- VoIP support (SIP, Cisco SCCP and Asterisk IAX)
Minus
- Report format can’t be convert to .pdf or .doc format
- No weekly, monthly historical report
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