ntopng strict snap published

[Didier Roche]

Le 04/08/2016 à 17:40, Blake Rouse a écrit :
> I have created a ntopng snap for the dev branch of ntopng. The snap
> works in strict mode once you connect it to the network-control
> interface. I currently registered the snap as ntopng-blake as ntopng
> is a reserved name. Let me know what you think.
>
> sudo snap install ntopng-blake
> sudo snap connect ntopng-blake:network-control ubuntu-core:network-control
> sudo systemctl restart snap.ntopng-blake.ntopng.service
>
> Login - http://localhost:3000
> User - admin
> Pass - admin
>
> A couple things that would improve this snap are:
>
> 1. I need the ntopng service to start after the redis service.
> Currently in the ntopng service it loops until it can connect to redis
> and then spawns the ntopng process. It would be nice to say in
> snapcraft start this service after this other service has started.
>
> 2. Since network-control interface is a reserved interface you have to
> manually restart the service once the connection is made. It would be
> nice to say in snapcraft that this service should be restarted once
> the connection is made. Even better would be don't start this service
> until this connection is made.
>
> Overall this is an awesome way of getting ntopng running on your
> system, directly from tip of dev.
>
> ntopng - https://github.com/ntop/ntopng
> ntopng-snap - https://github.com/blakerouse/ntopng-snap

Excellent work Blake!

Do you think there is any chance that you propose it to upstream for
merging your snapcraft.yaml to their upstream tree?
Cheers,
Didier