On 03 Feb 2014, at 18:45, Jon Bayless <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Unfortunately, I am not clear on how the pcap file would be created. I am not 
> doing any kind of capture on the server where I am running ntopng or nprobe.
Jon,
The pcap file was an example, you probably have to do -i eth0

Cheers Luca
> 
> I assumed that nprobe would accept the incoming netflow data from the routers 
> and then feed it to ntopng.
> Is that not correct? Do I need some other software running to accept the 
> netflow data from the routers and put it in a pcap file?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jon
> 
> On 2/1/2014 8:28 AM, Luca Deri wrote:
>> Jon,
>> the correct syntax is describe here 
>> https://svn.ntop.org/svn/ntop/trunk/ntopng/README.ntopng
>> 
>> - collector
>>   ntopng -i tcp://127.0.0.1:5556
>> 
>> - probe (nProbe)
>> nprobe --zmq "tcp://*:5556" -i ~/pcap/http.pcap -n none -b 2
>> Luca
>> 
>> On 31 Jan 2014, at 18:15, Jon Bayless <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi! I've successfully installed Ntopng on a Centos 6.5 x86_64 server and 
>>> the new web interface is very nice. It looks very impressive so far. I am 
>>> hoping to use the software to display and analyze netflow data 
>>> exported/sent by Cisco Catalyst 6500 series layer 3 switches. Currently we 
>>> have flows sent from those switches going into jkflow/flowscan on other 
>>> linux servers and it works nicely but there is no interface beyond the 
>>> manual RRDtool graphs we build from the data to show basic in and out byte 
>>> counts.
>>> 
>>> I understand that nprobe must be used as the netflow collector running on 
>>> the server with ntopng and I have tried to find good documentation on what 
>>> settings to use to do so. The best I have been able to do is see a number 
>>> of packets and connections from the switches in question in the hosts 
>>> display and flows. It shows it has received roughly 1.5GB of data from each 
>>> of the 2 routers I have sending to it but the data itself doesn't seem to 
>>> be processed by nprobe or ntopng.
>>> 
>>> The command I have used to start nprobe currently is:
>>> 
>>> nprobe --zmq "tcp://127.0.0.1:5556" -i none -n none -V 5 --collector-port 
>>> 2055
>>> 
>>> But I have tried a few other suggestions on other websites. What command 
>>> should I use if I just want the server to accept inbound netflow flows from 
>>> the routers I point at it and then put the flow data into ntopng?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Jon
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