2007 May 09 - Wed

Upgrading Nfsen and Nfdump

As an update to my two articles for installing nfdump and installing nfsen, here are a few corrections and a process for upgrading.

As of this writing, the latest snapshots are for March 12. Here is the upgrade process:

cd /usr/src
wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nfsen/nfsen-snapshot-20070312.tar.gz
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nfdump/nfdump-snapshot-20070312.tar.gz
/usr/local/nfsen/bin/nfsen.rc stop
tar -zxvf nfdump-snapshot-20070312.tar.gz
tar -zxvf nfsen-snapshot-20070312.tar.gz
cd nfdump-snapshot-20070312
./configure
make
make install
cd ../nfsen-snapshot-20070312
./install.pl /etc/nfsen/nfsen.conf
/usr/local/nfsen/bin/nfsen.rc start

The 'start' command could be placed in /etc/rc.local so it starts upon boot. The start command also starts the flow collectors (nfdump), so there is no need to start them; the nfsen.rc command takes care of everything.