How To Install fastnetmon on Debian 10

Learn how to install fastnetmon on Debian 10 with this tutorial. fastnetmon is fast DDoS analyzer with sflow/netflow/mirror support (community edition)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fastnetmon on Debian 10.

What is fastnetmon

fastnetmon is:

FastNetMon is a very high performance distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) detector built on top of multiple packet capture engines: NetFlow, IPFIX, sFLOW.

It can detect hosts in your networks sending or receiving large volumes of packets/bytes/flows per second. It can call an external script to notify you, switch off a server, or blackhole the client.

To enable sFLOW, simply specify IP of the server running FastNetMon and specify (configurable) port 6343. To enable netflow, simply specify IP of the server running FastNetMon and specify (configurable) port 2055.

This package contains the community edition.

There are three methods to install fastnetmon on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install fastnetmon Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fastnetmon using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fastnetmon

Install fastnetmon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fastnetmon using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fastnetmon

Install fastnetmon Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install fastnetmon using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fastnetmon

How To Uninstall fastnetmon on Debian 10

To uninstall only the fastnetmon package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fastnetmon

Uninstall fastnetmon And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fastnetmon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fastnetmon

Remove fastnetmon Configurations and Data

To remove fastnetmon configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fastnetmon

Remove fastnetmon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fastnetmon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fastnetmon

Dependencies

fastnetmon have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fastnetmon package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.