sales@fastnetmon.com

Support

Free Trial

sales@fastnetmon.com

Support

Free Trial

FastNetMon Advanced Install guide

Order a license

Please request a trial license before starting the installation process here: order trial

System requirements

Server requirements:

  • Physical server or virtual machine (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Proxmox, Xen, Google Cloud Compute, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure)

Supported operating systems:

We offer production support only for x86_64 hardware platform.

  • Ubuntu Linux 22.04, 24.04 (recommended) LTS
  • Debian Linux 12
  • RHEL-based platforms (CentOS, AlmaLinux, RockyLinux) 8, 9

Hardware requirements:

  • Memory: 16Gb
  • CPUs: 8 cores (SSE 4.2 required, AVX recommended)
  • 150 GB of hard drive space or more (SSD or NVME recommended)

If you run a network with a large number of active IPv4 and IPv6 hosts (100k+), we strongly recommend preferring CPUs with higher single-core performance and frequency.

If you want to use port mirror mode, you will need:

  • An additional 4 physical CPU cores per port
  • High-performance network card. For 10G capacity, we can guarantee performance only for Mellanox cards Connect-X 4, 5, 6 and newer models.

And you need to have reliable network connectivity (IPv4 is required, IPv6 is recommended) to the following hosts over port 443:

  • license.fastnetmon.com
  • repo.fastnetmon.com
  • install.fastnetmon.com
  • stats.fastnetmon.com

If you use a machine behind NAT/CGNAT, please keep your external IPv4 address persistent. Even if your machine has no global IPv6 connectivity, you must have IPv6 enabled locally, as we use it for inter-process interactions.

FastNetMon works in an IPv6-only environment, but you have to keep direct connectivity without any kind of address translation.

If you operate ARM64-based infrastructure, you can try experimental support for ARM64.

Install steps

Please prepare a freshly installed physical server or virtual machine. Then please log in with SSH and run the following commands:

wget https://install.fastnetmon.com/installer -Oinstaller
sudo chmod +x installer
sudo ./installer

As an alternative option, you can use our pre-created virtual machine images for a variety of hypervisors.

During this process, FastNetMon will assign a license to your hardware and IP address. Please carefully review our licensing server guide to understand our licensing process.

Next steps

For the initial configuration of FastNetMon for your network, please read the FastNetMon quick start after this guide. If you want to enable visual traffic dashboards, you will need a few additional steps for FastNetMon Visual Traffic.

Cloud deployment option

In addition to on-premise install, you can easily deploy FastNetMon as a container in Docker.