How to install Ntopng on CentOS 6.9

Next, download the ntop package using git and trigger the following command.

[root@localhost Desktop]# git clone https://github.com/ntop/ntopng.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /root/Desktop/ntopng/.git/
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Receiving objects: 100% (25967/25967), 104.07 MiB | 204 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (19253/19253), done.

Run the below script files and do the steps as shown below

[root@localhost ntopng]# ./autogen.sh
Wait please...

Run the ./configure command.

[root@localhost ntopng]# ./configure
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
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checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for nDPI... not found
Please do cd ..  git clone https://github.com/ntop/nDPI.git  cd nDPI  ./autogen.sh  make  cd ../ntopng and try again

Come back from ntop directory and download the nDPI.git package.

[root@localhost ntopng]# cd
[root@localhost ~]# git clone https://github.com/ntop/nDPI.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /root/nDPI/.git/
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Receiving objects: 100% (6817/6817), 23.02 MiB | 112 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4434/4434), done.

Run the ./autogen.sh script from nDPI directory.

[root@localhost nDPI]# ./autogen.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory `.' 
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
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config.status: creating libndpi.pc
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands

Run the ./configure script.

[root@localhost nDPI]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
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config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands

Now run make and make install commands.

[root@localhost nDPI]# make
[root@localhost nDPI]# make install

Return back to ntopng directory and run the below scripts as follows.

[root@localhost ntopng]# ./autogen.sh
[root@localhost ntopng]# ./configure

Run the make geoip command.

[root@localhost ntopng]# make geoip
--2017-07-26 17:06:35--  http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
Resolving geolite.maxmind.com... 104.16.37.47, 104.16.38.47, 2400:cb00:2048:1::6810:252f, ...
Connecting to geolite.maxmind.com|104.16.37.47|:80... connected.
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100%[==================================================================> ] 2,786,507   10.5M/s   in 0.3s   
2017-07-26 17:07:44 (10.5 MB/s) - “ GeoIPASNumv6.dat.gz”  saved [2786507/2786507]

Execute the make and make install commands.

[root@localhost ntopng]# make
[root@localhost ntopng]# make install

Download and extract the redis package using the wget and tar commands respectively.

[root@localhost Desktop]# wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-2.8.6.tar.gz
[root@localhost Desktop]# tar &ndash xvf redis-2.8.6.tar.gz

Switch the src directory from redis directory.

[root@localhost Desktop]#  cd redis-2.8.6/src

Trigger the make and make test commands as follows.

[root@localhost src]# make all
[root@localhost src]# make test

Copy the redis file into following locations.

[root@localhost src]# cd ..
[root@localhost redis-2.8.6]# cp ./src/redis-server /usr/local/bin/
[root@localhost redis-2.8.6]# cp ./src/redis-cli /usr/local/bin/
[root@localhost redis-2.8.6]# cp ./src/redis-check-dump /usr/local/bin/

Create a directory in below given location.

[root@localhost ~]#  mkdir /var/redis
[root@localhost ~]#  mkdir /etc/redis
[root@localhost ~]#  mkdir /etc/ntopng &ndash p

Create ntop daemon file and the copy the following contents in the file. Save and exit from the file.

[root@localhost ~]#sudo -e /etc/ntopng/ntopng.start
   --local-networks " 192.168.1.0/24" 
   --interface 1

Create a pid file for ntop by executing the following command.

[root@localhost ~]# sudo -e /etc/ntopng/ntopng.conf
 -G=/var/run/ntopng.pid < BR> 

Start the redis server by running the following command.

[root@localhost ~]# redis-server & 

Run the ntop script from ntop directory.

[root@localhost ntopng]# ./ntopng --dont-change-user & 

Switch over to your webserver enter your server IP with ntopng port number 3000. http://< IP-ADDRESS> :3000 and run it. A welcome page for ntopng will appear.