Sniffer installation

VoIP monitor sniffer can be installed in two ways - either as static binary which will run on any Linux distribution with kernels >= 2.6.18 or compiled from sources.

Latest Static binary

Static binary for 32bit,64bit or Arm arch can be downloaded from http://www.voipmonitor.org/download pages.

Step by step for 64bit linux procedure

wget https://www.voipmonitor.org/current-stable-sniffer-static-64bit.tar.gz --content-disposition --no-check-certificate
tar xzf voipmonitor-*-static.tar.gz
cd voipmonitor-*-static
./install-script.sh

Step by step for 32bit linux procedure

wget https://www.voipmonitor.org/current-stable-sniffer-static-32bit.tar.gz --content-disposition --no-check-certificate
tar xzf voipmonitor-*-static.tar.gz
cd voipmonitor-*-static
./install-script.sh

Step by step for ArmV6(RPI) linux

wget https://www.voipmonitor.org/current-stable-sniffer-static-armv6k.tar.gz --content-disposition --no-check-certificate
tar xzf voipmonitor-*-static.tar.gz
cd voipmonitor-*-static
./install-script.sh

Older static versions and versions with SS7(wireshark) module

If you need for any reason to install older version of a sniffer or version including wireshark's SS7 module follow:

Install sniffer version of your choice

Find voipmonitor*.tar.gz file of your choice at following site https://sourceforge.net/projects/voipmonitor/files/ and use the link for wget command in step by step above

Example of wget command for version 20.4.4 with ss7(wireshark) module

wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/voipmonitor/files/20.4/voipmonitor-wireshark-amd64-20.4.4-static.tar.gz/download -O voipmonitor-wireshark-amd64-20.4.4-static.tar.gz --content-disposition --no-check-certificate

Configuration of a sniffer

Now edit configuration file /etc/voipmonitor.conf and run voipmonitor

/etc/init.d/voipmonitor start

Systemd script for bringing up voipmonitor service at a boot time

If your system uses systemd for services management create a systemd startup script

Compile shared binary

Please see README.* inside the sources (we recommend to use the static version)

git clone https://github.com/voipmonitor/sniffer.git