Every now and then I like to keep you up to date about news in the ntop environment. This time it’s not news about analysis methods or software, but about a new hardware solution. If you’re someone looking for a hardware-based, scalable, optimized, and purpose-built solution, without the hassle of software installation, chances are you’re…
Read MoreIn the last few weeks I installed and configured some nBoxes with the new ntopng version 5.2. Now I’d like to briefly tell you all about it. For all of you who don’t know what an nBox is, I’ll relay the official definition here: nBox Recorder is a network traffic disk recorder application. With nBox…
Read MoreA customer asked me to analyze their network flows, with a solution oriented towards using an nBox that collects NetFlow data from a router located away from the branch office, takes it in for analysis, and then sends it to a NetEye Elastic module, which act as an analysis console for that NetFlow data. The…
Read MoreWho is using your network and how? What kind of traffic does your company generate? Where does slow network performance come from? ntop has the answers. ntop is a network traffic probe that monitors network usage. This solution provides an intuitive, encrypted web user interface for the exploration of both real-time and historical traffic information. In our…
Read MoreMonitoring network traffic was initially used only for highlighting the typology of network traffic and the quantity of packages/bites broadcasted. This information are important to analyze anomalies, to optimize flows (balance network traffic) and to size the infrastructure.
Read MoreMit der letzten Version des NetEye Reportings (2.1), welches mit NetEye 3.5 zur Verfügung steht, haben wir zwei neue, sehr interessante Features in Bezug auf die Analyse von NetFlow Statistiken implementiert. Für all jene, die mit NetFlow nicht so vertraut sind: NetFlow ist eine Technik, welche es Ihnen erlaubt IP-Datenströme auf Ihrer nBox zu erfassen….
Read MoreIn order to analyze the quality level of the delivered IT services the traditional monitoring systems used to focus exclusively on the control of hardware and software components and the network, neglecting the measurement of the performance experienced by the end user. Until now it was not always possible, in fact, to give a precise…
Read MoreThe Real User Experience Monitoring (RUM) is a new approach adopted to provide specific control on IT services and systems, allowing to analyse the performance and response time that the user really experiences. If you have an application behind a load balancer and the probe is between the client and the load balancer, the RUM retrieves…
Read MoreHakin9, a free monthly magazine on IT Security in its December edition published an article written by Luca Deri mentioning also the adoption of the nBox appliance with a pre-installed ntop and anProbe software. The magazine also pre-announced the 2011 edition of our Conference on Nagios & OSS Monitoring scheduled for the 12th of May. snort_exposed_hakin9_14-172 snort_exposed_hakin9_38-39
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