Hi,
at first let me introduce myself, as i'm new to this list. Originally finishing my
studies as a mechanical engineer, i 'jumped onto the IT train' which was running fast
when i left university. I have made my experiences with SUN SOLARIS, Windows and
Linux, and i'm working as network administrator in my firm. We've set up VPN tunnels
between two of our sites, and one of our interrests is to see protocol and ports
distribution through this tunnel. That's when we came to ntop.
Now my question:
After rebooting my Debian Linux (ntop v2.2c) i'm encountering a problem i didn't have
so far (ntop was running fine for weeks): everytime i start ntop using a start script
a syslog message is left saying
Jan 27 11:09:09 hostname ntop[325]: **FATAL_ERROR** No password for admin user -
please re-run ntop...
I started ntop with the option --set-admin-password=onepw, and after that i tried
again to start ntop via the script (and run it as deamon). But still this message
appears in syslog and ntop exits.
What's the thing i'm missing? I know, there's something i must have changed.....but
nothing i'm aware of.
The other thing: i know i'll have to provide ntop with a list of protocols i want to
gather informations of (command line switch -p). All of the protocols not mentioned in
e.g. a file are beeing listed as 'other protocols'. Regarding our tunnels those not
mentioned protos seem to produce quiet an amount of traffic (about 30%). Is there by
any chance an easy way to determine which protocols this could bee (i don't want to
provide a protocol list containing each possible proto, and i don't have a clue where
to start)?
Thanks to those who contribute for ntop. Thanks to those who developed it and of
course thanks to Tobi for rrdTool.
Best regards,
Thorsten
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Dipl.-Ing.
Thorsten Volkmer-Wolf
IT-Support & Services
AEROTEC Engineering GmbH
Hein-Sa�-Weg 38
21129 Hamburg / Germany
fon +49 (0)40/742 198-241
fax +49 (0)40/742 198-111
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