[ Thanks to Evolutionary IT for this
link. ]
“The life of a systems or network administrator requires us to
maintain an expansive understanding of our network infrastructure
to more effectively manage it. Amidst volumes of complex data that
some IT problems present and network management is no exception to
these complications. Visual tools allow us to better see trends and
make sense of the macro view of our networks. Ntop, nBox, nProbe
are just the right FOSS tools that can help us gain greater
insight.“Ntop is an effective libpcap-based GPL application that can
serve as a network probe while offering visual web-based insight on
your network traffic flows…”