Ramzi,
please checkout this blog post 
http://www.ntop.org/ntopng/creating-a-hierarchical-cluster-of-ntopng-instances/
I think this is what you are looking for.
Let me know.
Yuri
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On 25 Sep 2014, at 14:23, Ramzi Abdallah <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I am trying to build a distributed network monitoring system using 
> ntopng/nprobe. The aim is to have one collector with a Web interface to 
> monitor data collected from other probes across the campus.
>  
> What I am not clear about is whether I should have one ntopng server and 
> multiple nprobes or multiple ntopng servers.
>  
> I already have ntopng installed on Fedora core 20 server and started with the 
> bellow configuration. The ntopng server is collecting data from a mirrored 
> port on a 3com switch. I guess my question is how do I extend monitoring to 
> other remote switches? is it by installing nprobe on a mirrored port on each 
> switch or by installing ntopng? Ntopng server is started using this command 
> /usr/local/bin/ntopng /etc/ntopng/ntopng.conf
>  
> /etc/ntopng/ntopng.conf
> --------------------------------
> # run as user ntop
> --user ntopng
>  
> # run as daemon
> --daemon
>  
> # Enable historical data -F
> --dump-flows
>  
> # for testing use different http port
> --http-port 3000
>  
> # Disable web interface logout for inactivity
> --disable-autologout
>  
> # Set the Default Data Directory
> --data-dir /usr/share/ntopng/data
>  
> # Set the HTTP Documents Directory
> -httpdocs-dir /usr/share/ntopng/httpdocs
>  
> # Set the Scripts Directory
> --scripts-dir /usr/share/ntopng/scripts
>  
> # Set the Callbacs Directory
> --callbacks-dir /usr/share/ntopng/scripts/callbacks
>  
> # Set the redis Info
> --redis localhost:6379
>  
> # Interfaces to Monitor
> #--interface lo,p2p1,p3p1
> --interface p3p1
>  
> # Set PID File
> --pid /var/tmp/ntopng.pid
>  
> # Use our Protocol List
> #--protocols /etc/ntopng/protocol.list
>  
> # Since the Interfaces used for capturing don’t have an IP address we need to 
> set the Local Host Networks
> #--local-subnets "192.168.0.0/16,10.168.0.0/16"
> -m "192.168.0.0/16,10.168.0.0/16"
>  
> # Enable some debugging
> #--verbose
>  
>  
> Thank you in advance
>  
> Ramzi
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