Hi,

According to the information shown, it may be that ntopng is not able to
fetch monitored flows from the nProbe. I would try to bind the nProbe to
any address (--zmq tcp://*:5557) and see if ntopng can see the traffic.

Simone



On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Enrico Kern <enrico.k...@glispamedia.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i have some weird issue with sflow data,
>
> i try to get nprobe and ntopng working with sflows exported from an Arista
> Switch. I installed the latest versions from the centos repository:
>
> nprobe-7.3.160613-5264.x86_64
> ntopng-2.3.160613-1231.x86_64
>
> and launch nprobe:
>
> nprobe --zmq "tcp://127.0.0.1:5557" -i none -n none --collector-port 6343
> --verbose 2 --dump-stats -nf -V5 -b 2
>
> and ntop:
>
>
> ntopng -i tcp://127.0.0.1:5557 -d /var/tmp -w 3001
>
>
> on the ntop webinterface i see no traffic at all. I confirmed that zeromq
> receives packets with tcpdump and also see the sflow packets coming in.
> nprobe also sees the flows and reports that for each new flow:
>
> 13/Jun/2016 12:54:27 [engine.c:2570] New Flow: [tcp] 192.168.1.6:59339 ->
> 192.168.1.7:6800 [AC:16:2D:71:xx:xx -> 00:50:56:AF:xx:xx][vlan 900][tos
> 0][ifIdx: 1000011 -> 1000003][subflowId:
> 0/0x0000][idx=68177][firstSeen=1465815267/0]
>
> as example. But the flows never get exported. If i stop nprobe it says
> that:
>
> 13/Jun/2016 12:56:35 [cache.c:1224] Redis Cache [0 total/0.0 get/sec][0
> total/0.0 set/sec]
> 13/Jun/2016 12:56:35 [nprobe.c:5326] Still allocated 0 hash buckets
> 13/Jun/2016 12:56:35 [nprobe.c:2698] Processed packets: 6 (max bucket
> search: 0)
> 13/Jun/2016 12:56:35 [nprobe.c:2681] Fragment queue length: 0
> 13/Jun/2016 12:56:35 [nprobe.c:2707] Flow export stats: [0 bytes/0 pkts][0
> flows/0 pkts sent]
> 13/Jun/2016 12:56:35 [nprobe.c:2714] Flow collection: [collected pkts:
> 147][processed flows: 0]
> 13/Jun/2016 12:56:35 [nprobe.c:2717] Flow drop stats:   [0 bytes/0 pkts][0
> flows]
> 13/Jun/2016 12:56:35 [nprobe.c:2722] Total flow stats:  [0 bytes/0 pkts][0
> flows/0 pkts sent]
>
>
> so while it received 147 pakets it did not process a single flow.  tcpdump
> also shows me the flows:
>
> # tcpdump port 6343
> tcpdump: WARNING: eth0: no IPv4 address assigned
> tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
> listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
> 12:57:58.378005 IP x.10780 > target.sflow: sFlowv5, IPv4 agent xxxx,
> agent-id 9, length 1201
> 12:57:58.800558 IP 5x.10780 > target.sflow: sFlowv5, IPv4 agent xxxx,
> agent-id 1, length 253
> 12:57:59.800595 IP x.10780 > target.sflow: sFlowv5, IPv4 agent xxxx,
> agent-id 9, length 1201
> 12:58:00.505019 IP x.10780 > target.sflow: sFlowv5, IPv4 agent xxxx,
> agent-id 9, length 1201
> 12:58:00.800634 IP x.10780 > target.sflow: sFlowv5, IPv4 agent xxxx,
> agent-id 1, length 253
>
>
> I have no issues if i use the arista flows with prtg, imtech analyzer or
> solarwinds. Just ntop doesnt like it. Fun is if i use nprobe with an pcap
> file it seem to proceess at least 1 flow:
>
> # nprobe -i sflow.pcap
>
> 13/Jun/2016 13:01:19 [cache.c:1224] Redis Cache [0 total/0.0 get/sec][0
> total/0.0 set/sec]
> 13/Jun/2016 13:01:19 [nprobe.c:2698] Processed packets: 61 (max bucket
> search: 0)
> 13/Jun/2016 13:01:19 [nprobe.c:2681] Fragment queue length: 0
> 13/Jun/2016 13:01:19 [nprobe.c:2707] Flow export stats: [72589 bytes/61
> pkts][1 flows/1 pkts sent]
> 13/Jun/2016 13:01:19 [nprobe.c:2717] Flow drop stats:   [0 bytes/0 pkts][0
> flows]
> 13/Jun/2016 13:01:19 [nprobe.c:2722] Total flow stats:  [72589 bytes/61
> pkts][1 flows/1 pkts sent]
>
>
> i played around now with this for almost a day, i have no idea anymore, i
> dont think im doing something wrong and followed the documentation and
> googled like hours  but no result. I also tried that first on ubuntu 14.04
> before i ended up now on CentOS 6.x on a complete different machine just to
> rule out issues, but its the same on both installations.
>
> Anyone an idea?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards.
>
> Enrico
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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