Burton
is probably going to ask you to post some more details about what happened
when it stopped. And I can’t say
I can help you either, but I will tell you that S1 will only keep information
if NTOP is shut down normally. If
it crashes the data doesn’t get written to the database and it is all
lost.
On a
side note, Burton or Luca, it might be a good idea to have NTOP write to the
database once every hour or some other interval so that if a crash occurs data
is not necessarily lost.
Oh and
one more thing Rafael, the data that is stored using the S1 flag does not
include the overall traffic stats.
It will only keep stats for specific hosts, so when you click on a host
after a reset there is data there about the host from before. If I am not mistaken your traffic
stats will always be wiped clean after a
reset.
Chris
-----Original
Message-----
From: Rafael
Rodrigo - NSINET [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: June 24, 2002 11:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Ntop] NTOP Stoping without a
Reason
I have a
Conectiva Linux 7.0 with the currente stable
version of
tcpdump and lipcap.I compiled ntop2.0.99
RC2 and use
this to count the traffic of my Network. All
traffic is only
going for Internet. I don't have a samba/windows
network or
anything as it. My Internet Link is of 512Kbps,
then the max
network traffic is 512Kbps.
Well, the
compile was fine, and NTOP run fine during
3 days. But now
it stops without a reason. And I lost
all traffic
counted by NTOP. I am using the flag -S1 save
all network
traffic, but it don't work now. I am using the
current stable
version of gdbm database.
The only thing
that I think that can justify it, is a Hacker
attack to a
machine monitored by NTOP. This attack cause a
total traffic
of 1.1 Gigabytes on my network, during about
15 hours. But
NTOP stops 5 hours after I stop the Hacker.
Somebody can
help-me ?? If somebody knows a better
tool to count
monthly traffic on a network by machines,
please tell me.
But I think that this is the better tool.
Sorry by the
bad english.
Thanks,
Rafael Rodrigo M. Rosa -
NSI
Brazilian Internet Provider
