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

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

Enjoy!

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