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| Developer(s) | Luca Deri |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 5.0.1 / 13 August 2012 [1] |
| Written in | C |
| Platform | Cross-platform: Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Network analyzer |
| License | GNU GPLv3 |
| Website | www |
ntop is computer software that probes a computer network to show network use in a way similar to what the program top does for processes.
In interactive mode, it displays the network status on the user's terminal. In Web mode, it acts as a web server, creating a HTML dump of the network status. It supports a NetFlow-sFlow emitter-collector, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) based client interface for creating ntop-centric monitoring applications, and RRDtool (RRD) for persistently storing traffic statistics. [2]
ntop is available for both Unix and Win32-based platforms. It has been developed by Luca Deri, an Italian research scientist and network manager at University of Pisa.
Common usage on a Linux system is to start the ntop daemon (/etc/init.d/ntopd start), then one can use the web interface to ntop via visiting http://127.0.0.1:3000 provided the loopback device has been started (/etc/init.d/net.lo start) and the listening port for ntop is 3000 (look out for the -w option in grep ntop).
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