How To Monitor Network with Ntop on Ubuntu e debian and Mikrotik

Install Ntop

$sudo apt-get install ntop

Next, Configure Ntop

Set Admin Password

$sudo ntop –set-admin-password

Restart Ntop Service

Then check if your ntop already running by visiting

http://[your_ntop_server_ip]:3000 (without [ ])

Next, we configure ntop to receive Mikrotik’s traffic flow

Select Menu: Plugin -> NetFlow -> Activate

Select Menu: Plugin -> NetFlow -> Configure

Edit the Netflow Name = Mikrotik (activate)

Edit Local Collector UDP Port = 2055

Edit Virtual NetFlow Interface Network Address = [your_mikrotik_ip_in_cidr_format]

Select Admin -> Switch Interface -> Select Mikrotik

If your ntop service is up and running, next step is to configure mikrotik.

Enable traffic-flow on mikrotik by following these steps below:

After a while your ntop will began collecting data from Mikrotik traffic Flow. Done!

*Update:

It seems that the current version of libpcap in Ubuntu 10.04 has bug in it. So I need to manually upgrade to the new version (libpcap-dev_1.1.1-2_all.deb)