Darkstat

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install Darkstat in CentOS

#  yum install darkstat

#  darkstat -i eth0

Test:

http://ip-address:667

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Darkstat is a free source network monitoring tool. It is a packet sniffer which runs as a background process and provides the statistics of a web browser, captures network traffic and serves reports over HTTP. Installation of Darkstat is explained in this manual.

Features

• • Generates traffic graphs, reports per host, shows ports for each host.

  • Embedded web-server with deflate compression.

  • Supports Asynchronous reverse DNS resolution by using a child process.

  • Supports IPv6.

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To install Darkstat

First install the dependency packages to start the Darkstat installation.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# yum install libpcap libpcap-devel

yum install darkstat

Download the Darkstat package with the help of  wget command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# wget https://unix4lyfe.org/darkstat/darkstat-3.0.718.tar.bz2

                  wget https://unix4lyfe.org/darkstat/darkstat-3.0.719.tar.bz2

--2016-09-22 07:36:31--  https://unix4lyfe.org/darkstat/darkstat-3.0.718.tar.bz2 Resolving unix4lyfe.org (unix4lyfe.org)... 64.62.188.248, 2001:470:1:41::403e:bcf8 Connecting to unix4lyfe.org (unix4lyfe.org)|64.62.188.248|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 116044 (113K) [application/x-bzip2] Saving to: ‘darkstat-3.0.718.tar.bz2’  100%[=========================================================================================>] 116,044      166KB/s   in 0.7s     2016-09-22 07:36:33 (166 KB/s) - ‘darkstat-3.0.718.tar.bz2’ saved [116044/116044]

Extract the downloaded package by utilizing the following command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# tar xvjf darkstat-3.0.7 darkstat-3.0.718/ darkstat-3.0.718/acct.c darkstat-3.0.718/configure darkstat-3.0.718/db.h darkstat-3.0.718/html.h darkstat-3.0.718/darkstat.c darkstat-3.0.718/dns.h . . . darkstat-3.0.718/cdefs.h darkstat-3.0.718/COPYING.GPL

Move to the extracted directory.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# cd darkstat-3.0.719

Then execute the below scripts to install Darkstat.

[root@linuxhelp darkstat-3.0.718]# ./configure && make && make install

 LINK   darkstat /usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local/sbin /usr/bin/install -c -m 555 darkstat /usr/local/sbin /usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local/share/man/man8 /usr/bin/install -c -m 444 darkstat.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8 [root@tswl darkstat-3.0.719]#

[root@linuxhelp darkstat-3.0.718]# Start Darkstat services by simply executing the below command.  [root@linuxhelp darkstat-3.0.718]# darkstat -i eno16777736

                                # darkstat -i eth0

Get into the browser from the terminal by running the following command.  [root@linuxhelp darkstat-3.0.718]# firefox

Dive into http://<IP address>:667 and start monitoring the ethernet interface.

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