ntopng is similar to the Unix utility ntop, and can collect data for an entire LAN or WAN. Most open-source Nagios traffic monitoring software can be found at − įor a summarized history of Nagious, here is the official Nagios History page − Īnother great tool allowing bandwidth and traffic monitoring via a web-gui is called ntopng. Hence, before planning any rollouts with Nagios, make sure the open-source licensed versions will meet your needs or plan on spending with an Enterprise Budget in mind. At one point it was all free and open-source, but has since advanced into an Enterprise solution with paid licensing models to support the need of Enterprise sophistication. Nagios has been around for a long time, therefore, it is both tried and tested. Traffic Monitoring for LAN / WAN Scenarios When traffic monitoring with an accessible web-gui, using third party utilities such as ntop-ng or Nagios is the best choice (versus re-creating such facilities from scratch).įor further research on both configurable web-gui solutions, following are a few links to get started on research.
Most utilities discussed are designed to be used by an Administrator with the shell of physical access. There will always be situations where an Administrator (for one reason or another) is left with only tools in the main CentOS repositories. In this tutorial, we will focus on those that are packaged in the main CentOS distribution repositories and the Fedora EPEL repository. There are several third party tools that can add enhanced capabilities for CentOS traffic monitoring.
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