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linux network traffic web monitoring
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+# Installation
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+1. download everything in a directory inside your web docs. You don't need apache. Any web server able to provide static files will do the job fine.
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+2. step into this directory and compile netdata
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+```sh
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+gcc -O3 -o netdata netdata.c
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+```
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+3. run netdata and instruct it to create json files in this directory
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+```sh
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+./netdata -d -l 60 -u 1 -o `pwd`
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+```
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+-d says to go daemon mode
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+-l 60 says to show 60 seconds of history
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+-u 1 says to create json files every second
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+-o sets the save path for the json files
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+You should now have one .json file per interface you have active, in the current directory.
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+All these files are updated once per second.
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+4. edit index.html and set the interfaces you would like to monitor on the web page.
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+5. hit index.html from a web browser, through your web server.
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+6. Enjoy real time monitor web graphs for your interfaces.
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