FastNetMon

Advanced install guide

As result of this guide you will get working FastNetMon instance and get basic
knowledge about toolkit internals.

FastNetMon could work on bare physical server or you could use any full
virtualization technologies (KVM, Vmware, Amazon, Azure).

It works only on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 x86_64.

From system side we need at least 1Gb of RAM and 2 physical cores (because we
need to use one kernel for hot-path processing of packets).

From disk side I'd like to recommend SSD drives because they are reliable and
very fast for time series database. Required amount of disk space is depends on
number of hosts in your network. But 50GB will be OK for first time.

If you could use ext4 on your server it could simplify debugging of I/O related
issues.

You need to have least one external (globally routable) IPv4 address assigned to
your test server. Its mandatory because we are using IP as part of license
generation / validation process.

And you need to have strong network connectivity to following hosts:

license.fastnetmon.com, repo.fastnetmon.com and install.fastnetmon.com.

If you are interested in traffic capture from the mirrored port we have additional
requirements to hardware:

Intel only based NIC recommended (I350 or X-520/Intel 82599 chipset)

2 additional CPU cores for 1GE port and 4 cores for 10GE port
1 additional 1GE interface for management purposes
Please prepare freshly installed server or VM which follow requirements
mentioned in document FastNetMon system requirements.

Then please login with ssh and run following commands:

wget https://install.fastnetmon.com/installer -Oinstaller

sudo chmod +x installer

sudo ./installer

After installer script startup itll create log file and print his name:
/tmp/fastnetmon_install_xxxx.log. In case of error youll need it for case
investigation.

In case of success installer will print: Install successfully completed.

For initial configuration of FastNetMon for your network please read

FastNetMon quick start after this guide.