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Drill Down Deeper: Using ntopng to Zoom In, Filter Out and Go Straight to the Packets

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Configuration

Hardware

Tracewell TFX2HE with 1 passthrough module, 1 switch module.

Operating System Version

CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="7 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="7"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 7 (Core)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:7"
HOME_URL="https://www.centos.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.centos.org/"

CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT="CentOS-7"
CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="7"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="centos"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="7"

CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)
CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)

Kernel Version

Linux ntopdemo.lan 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 18 17:15:30 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Install n2disk and ntop

Perform Installation

  1. Install epel with yum install -y epel-release
  2. Erase the zeromq3 package with yum erase zeromq && yum clean all && yum update -y && reboot
  3. Pull ntop repo with wget http://packages.ntop.org/centos-stable/ntop.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/ntop.repo
  4. Install required packages with yum install pfring-dkms pfring n2disk nprobe ntopng ntopng-data cento pfring-drivers-zc-dkms redis hiredis-devel

Perform Configuration Zero Copy Driver

  1. List interfaces with pf_ringcfg --list-interfaces
  2. Configure the driver with pf_ringcfg --configure-driver i40e
  3. Set promiscuous mode on the interface in question with /sbin/ip link set em1 promisc on

  4. Edit the pfring configuration file with vim /etc/pf_ring/interfaces.conf and add your configuration.

    MANAGEMENT_INTERFACES="<YOUR_MANAGEMENT_INTERFACE>"
CAPTURE_INTERFACES="<YOUR_CAPTURE_INTERFACE>"

  5. Open the file etc/ntopng/ntopng.conf. If you do not have a license add --community to the end

  6. Configure the firewall to accept connections to ntopng with: firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=3000/tcp && firewall-cmd --reload

  7. Enable and start services with:

    systemctl enable redis.service
systemctl enable ntopng.service
systemctl enable pf_ring
systemctl start redis.service
systemctl start ntopng.service
systemctl start pf_ring

  8. Make sure the services are running correctly with:

    systemctl status redis.service
systemctl status ntopng.service
systemctl status pf_ring

Performing Filtering