NTOP web interface?

Question

NTOP is a network monitor.
It has a web interface for viewing statistics.

I installed it via sudo apt-get install ntop on Ubuntu 2012.04, the daemon got started at the end of the install, without me doing anything special.

QUESTION: How to access the web interface?

http://localhost:4242 says Unable to connect.

I tried stopping the daemon and launching it in various ways:

sudo ntop -P /etc/ntop -W4242 -d
sudo ntop -P /var/lib/ntop/ -W4242 -d

But still Unable to connect.

Solution 1

You can view and configure it through http://hostname:3000/ or http://127.0.0.1:3000/

ntop focuses on :

• Traffic measurement
• Traffic monitoring
• Network optimization and planning
• Detection of network security violations

You can also go through the documentation and Man Pages for optimum usage.

Solution 2

There are two ways to access the web-gui for NTOP.

-w --> This uses an unencrypted connection (the default). Port 3000 unless overridden.
-W --> Uses SSL encryption.

Examples:

1. Default Setup

   sudo ntop -d

   This would default to an unencrypted ntop service running on port 3000. To connect you would type http://[IP_ADDRESS_OF_SYSTEM]:3000 into the address bar of a web browser.
   

2. Encrypted Setup

   sudo ntop -W 8080 -d

This results in an encrypted ntop service running on port 8080. To connect you would need to type https://[IP_ADDRESS_OF_SYSTEM]:8080 into the address bar of a web browser.

Comments

[virtualxtc]

When I set up ntop it asked for my network interfaces and administrator password - shouldn't it just launch itself?