Hi,

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Matt Kettler <matt.kett...@fourthdim.com>
wrote:

> I don't think it is time. Both have more-or-less the same offset relative
> to one particular local NTP server and are both in the same timezone. The
> offsets suggests a less than 0.3 millisecond time difference.
>
>
> Also, wouldn't the same time problem apply to flows, which time out after
> 1 minute? And wouldn't that also cause the "hosts" counter to read "0
> hosts" rather than "584 hosts"?
>
no. The bottom-right counter show the number of hosts in cache, while the
Hosts page gives only the currently active hosts. So it can be that the
bottom counter is > of the current number of active hosts.

>
> If I go into a flow, and click on a client IP, I can see the first/last
> seen line suggest host was seen very recently:
>
>
> 03/03/2017 07:22:46 [17 min, 56 sec ago]     03/03/2017 07:39:46 [44 sec
> ago]
>
>
> ​It is also identifying the host as being local and belonging in one of
> the host pools I created. It's a shame it doesn't show up in the all hosts
> page.
>
>
> Regardless, I jacked up the local host timeout to 1 hour, which is as high
> as it will go.
>
>
> I am not using "delay flow-create" at all on my asa, and my template
> timeout is set to 15 minutes (which I think I may drop to 1-2 minutes
> soon). The above "last seen" of 44 seconds suggests they're being exported
> often.
>
Please, start ntopng in foreground and inspect the console for any error
that may occur when visiting the hosts page. Also use your browser to
search for any possible JS errors (right-click and inspect element before
visiting the empty hosts page).

>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* ntop-boun...@listgateway.unipi.it <ntop-bounces@listgateway.
> unipi.it> on behalf of Simone Mainardi <maina...@ntop.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, March 3, 2017 5:45 AM
> *To:* n...@unipi.it
> *Cc:* ntop@listgateway.unipi.it
> *Subject:* Re: [Ntop] ntopng+nprobe+cisco asa netflow - no hosts..
>
> Hi,
>
> Is the clock of the ASA set properly? How often flows are exported? My
> guess is that timestamps of received flows are not in sync with the ntopng
> clock and thus hosts are considered idle and not shown in the web UI.
>
> You may also want to increase idle timeouts from the ntopng preferences
> web page.
>
> Regards,
> Simone
>
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 6:46 PM, Matt Kettler <matt.kett...@fourthdim.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm currently testing out a demo copy of nprobe/ntopng, on an Ubuntu LTS
>> 16.04 to evaluate if it is worth purchasing.
>>
>>
>>
>> This seems to work partially, I can see flows, protocol breakdowns etc.
>> However, the population of hosts doesn’t seem to be working so well.
>>
>>
>>
>> I generally see that there are hosts in the status block in the lower
>> right, but when I go to "hosts" from the top menu, there are no hosts found.
>>
>>
>>
>> Flows on the other hand populate correctly, and I can even click on a
>> host IP in there and get a summary of the host.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've tried tinkering with various things, like changing the idle
>> timeouts, and adding local hosts as sticky, but that doesn't seem to help.
>> At one point I got some local hosts to populate, and they stayed for a
>> while as I was using sticky locals, but I realized no remotes were ever
>> being added, so I tried restarting it with sticky-hosts=none, and now
>> nothing is populated.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've also tried updating a few times, currently I am running:
>>
>> ntopng --version
>>
>> v.2.5.170301 [Enterprise/Professional Edition]
>>
>>
>>
>> and was running:
>>
>> v.2.5.170228 [Enterprise/Professional Edition]
>>
>>
>>
>> and prior to that I was running whatever was current on the apt repo last
>> friday.
>>
>>
>>
>> Have I misconfigured something? Failing to understand a limit of the demo
>> versions?
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm using this sending netflows from a Cisco ASA to nprobe, which then
>> zmq's them to ntopng, so these are my conf files: (minor censoring of bits
>> with xxx's)
>>
>>
>>
>> nprobe:
>>
>> --collector=none
>>
>> --interface=none
>>
>> --zmq="tcp://*:5556"
>>
>> --collector-port=2055
>>
>> --lifetime-timeout=180
>>
>> --idle-timeout=60
>>
>> -g=/var/run/nprobe-none.pid
>>
>> --vlanid-as-iface-idx=none
>>
>> --as-list=/usr/share/ntopng/httpdocs/geoip/GeoIPASNum.dat
>>
>> --daemon-mode
>>
>> --dump-stats=/var/log/nprobe/none-0_flows_stats.txt
>>
>> --city-list=/usr/share/ntopng/httpdocs/geoip/GeoLiteCity.dat
>>
>> -V=5
>>
>>
>>
>> ntopng:
>>
>> -G=/var/run/ntopng.pid
>>
>> --interface="tcp://127.0.0.1:5556"
>>
>> --local-networks="192.168.0.0/16,10.0.0.0/8,xx.xx.xx.xx/xx"
>>
>> --daemon
>>
>> --http-port=3000
>>
>> --sticky-hosts=none
>>
>> --dump-hosts=none
>>
>> -F "mysql;xxxx;ntopng;flows;xxxxx;xxxxx"
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