Doug Riddle wrote:
>--- chchallisonox.net wrote: > > >>I'm attempting to install FlFlowScann a DeDebianox >>at work. >>I am creating a "user" that will run the software. >>Should I install everything as root then give my >>flflowscanser the rights to the relevant >>directories? >>Should I login as the flflowscanser and just "susuto >>do the installation? Opinions? >>TIA, >>Cleve >> >> > >Hey Cleve, > >I am one of the few DeDebiansers on the list. A few >quick questions: What distribution/release are you >using? Do you have a deb for the install? What level >rights does it need to operate? It is a network >monitoring tool, I know, but that is about all I know >about it. > >If you do not have a deb, I would create one with >Alien. You could use the tarball, or gzgzbut making a >deb with Alien and using apt-get is the way to go. >Installing it that way gives you the option of using >it with any user, which can come in real handy. If >your flflowscanser gets hosed, why reinstall all the >software. > >I use LiLibranetwhich is a commercial blend of Sid and >stable. It has a few nice widgets that help with >installs such as the yours. > >Write me any time. If I don't know the answer, I know >someone that does. > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Search - Find what you?re looking for faster >http://search.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > Doug, Actually, I used the knoppix-installer to lay down a harddrive image of the knoppix 3.3 live-cd......like Libranet it is a mixture. Then I did an apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. I can actually do an apt-get install flowscan to install the package but I've been downloading all the .tar.gz files and doing the whole ./configure, make, make install thing. flowscan uses a patched version of cflowd which in turn uses arts++ Flowscan is like MRTG on steroids, and it also uses rrdtools to make graphs, etc...........rather than simply showing the volume of traffic going in and out of the various interfaces of a device via snmp mib info, flowscan uses the Cisco NetFlow info along with snmp, etc to provide a more detailed graph of traffic by protocol, service, etc Very useful, but so far its been daunting to install and configure.......the documentation is not for the newbie and this is the first real enterprise level production deployment of a linux based application that I am working on. I've been local support for linux boxes/products before but these were vendor products. Last night I wiped everything clean and started fresh..........first thing I noticed was that arts++ didn't make correctly.....Knoppix has GNU Make 3.8.0 and I think there is an issue with the arts++ software not having flex headers or .hh or somethingorother.....if that makes any sense. Today I am going to try an older version of arts++.....and there is also a reference by the author of flowscan that he had to edit some file to include a directory where his flex headers were actually located???? Does this sound like a lesson in futility? I'm definitely over my head with this but I have to admit that I am slowly, painfully learning a lot. cleve
