Good morning Luca -

I have not configured -m, you are correct.  I assume you mean on the device 
running nProbe?

> 1. ntopng keeps in memory hosts as long as they are active

What period of time is considered 'active'?  This pertains to not just local 
but remote as well?

> 2. idle local hosts are then purged from memory and put on redis for some 
> time. This allows them to be restored if they make traffic again within 1h or 
> so

No (interesting) devices are local to the device running nProbe.  There are 
other servers on its subnet but I would not expect any traffic from them except 
broadcasts.  The same for the system running ntopng.

> This said what do you need exactly: ability to keep in memory all local hosts 
> only, right?

The hosts I am interested in seeing data about will not be local to nProbe or 
ntopng systems.  All the devices of interest are in our WAN.  I need to be able 
to answer the questions: When did (nProbe) last see traffic from system X? How 
much traffic has system X sent/received in the last Y period?

> Local hosts are now persistent (unless configured differently). This means 
> that is host a.b.c.d is idle and is purged from memory, its state is saved in 
> redis and thus as soon as a.b.c.d starts making traffic again, it is restored 
> from the cache with all previous counters (in the original ntop all counters 
> start from zero again). Obviously you can restore an host at any time, simply 
> searching it on the search box.

I will configure ntopng to view all 10.x.x.x addresses as local and see if that 
produces the results I am interested in.  Even though they are not truly local, 
that won't matter.

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