EXA8 NTOPNG TICK Stack

CUBRO EXA8

This project is part of the Open-Source Cubro EXA8 Contest

Authors: kYroL01, lmangani

EXA8 + NTOPNG + InfluxDB

This guide will assist installing NTOPNG and the InfluxDB TICK Stack on the Cubro EXA8

Challenges

• Adapting, Compiling, Packaging TICK Stack bundle components to arm64/exa8
  • no existing packages for arm64 from influx
• Compiling, Packaging ntopng 4.x as an update to existing components to arm64/exa8
  • no existing packages for arm64 from ntop
• Testing, Optimization and Documentation

Requirements

Install the QXIP EXA8 Repository for Ubuntu:

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/qxip/cubro-pub/script.deb.sh | sudo bash

Influx TICK Stack

Setup

Install the TICK Stack EXA8 bundle package for arm64:

sudo apt-get install tick-exa8

Start the services

sudo systemctl start influxdb
sudo systemctl start kapacitor
sudo systemctl start chronograf

Configuration

• Browse to EXA8_IP port 8888 and configure Chronograf with defaults
• Click Add New Connection (no changes)
• Click Next to skip importing Dashboards
• Click Continue to add Kapacitor Connection (no changes)
• Click Finish

NTOP ntopng

Setup

Install the latest ntopng 4.x EXA8 package for arm64:

apt install ntopng
systemctl restart ntopng

• Browse to EXA8_IP/ntopng

Configuration

• Browse to Settings > Preferences > Timeseries
• Enable InfluxDB driver
• Configure URL http://127.0.0.1:8086
• Configure Resolution to 10s or 1m
• Save the configuration

Enjoy!!!

Your EXA8 is now ready to rock with ntopng and the InfluxDB stack

Installing Grafana

If you prefer using Grafana instead of Chronograf, follow the next steps:

sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1
wget https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana_7.0.4_arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_7.0.4_arm64.deb

Configure the Grafana port in /etc/grafana/grafana.ini

# The http port to use
http_port = 3333

Apply the changes and start the service:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable grafana-server
systemctl start grafana-server