Hi,

 

I recently installed ntopng 2.3 on debian wheezy following this
<https://terminal28.com/ntopng-ntop-web-based-network-traffic-monitoring-sys
tem-linux-debian/>  article, the install was successful and all is running
well. I just have a few quick questions.

 

1.       How and where does ntopng store the flow data. As part of the
install instructions, the article had  me install redis-server. Is that
where the data is stored (in my instance)? What im essentially looking for
is the ability to search historical data using various criteria's. It seems
like the only native search options are "search host", and the host/nic
"timeframe". What if I wish to search for is specific flows, specific time
ranges and perhaps generate reports. I saw an ntop article
<http://www.ntop.org/ntopng/exploring-historical-data-using-ntopng/>
describing the option of exploring historical data, its mentioning that it
only supports MySQL, which I guess isn't going to work for me? And just so I
understand this, when this is enabled, then historical data is dumped to the
db, and the web interfaces exposes a new search feature to search the
historical data? Is the "data retention" setting in "preferences" referring
to this?

2.       In my setup, for how long does it keep the data such as the
"timeframe? Is it configurable? 

3.       Is it possible to have ntop centrally collect flows from NAT
devices to one central server. Meaning, the device sending the flows (e.g.
the debian server) are behind the firewall, but all flows are sent to one
server in the cloud. The server in the cloud cant access the device behind
the firewall 

4.       If it is possible, will I be able to sort the traffic by the
originating device? What would I need to run on the Linux boxes sending the
flows, I assume not the full ntopng and the db backend? is this where I
would use nrobe?

5.       Is it possible to have ntopng email alerts? If not, where can I see
alerts?

 

Joseph

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