I seem to be experiencing the same issues. My router interfaces show a
large amount of traffic, but ntop is reporting much less. Please post if
you come to any conclusions as to the cause or fix.

FCC

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Burton Strauss
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 10:09 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Ntop] Ntop netflow rrd updates

netFlow takes each flow and adds it to the appropriate accumulators.
There
is no summarization at all.  

The rrd graphs will show normalized rates, but that's discussed in the
paper
(you are confusing the arrival of netFlow data which is stored into
ntop's
accumulators with the updates of the rrd files which occurs based on the
time setting in the rrd plugin).

Read the stats in the netFlow plugin.  A common culprit is data being
thrown
away due to port 0 (not tcp/ip) etc.

-----Burton
 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
BALDWIN, BILL (SBCSI)
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:22 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Ntop] Ntop netflow rrd updates

Hello All!
I have searched the archives and read the code and I still need some
help.

[Environment Division] - (ok I just admitted my age :) Ntop v3.1.0
Redhat
2.4.21-x.Elsmp Dual Pentium III 1.5GHz, 1.5G RAM, 4-36GB Raid 5 HD's
GDBM
1.8.4 Built from source: no special switches except for --enable-sslv3
all
other switches are for directories Running as a netflow collector: -i
none
-M -m (8 /20's) No changes to myrrd directory or rrd configuration
Successfully running on other RH9 platforms gathering libpcap data


The netflow plugin is correctly receiving the data from the router and
reports no processing errors.  The router has been configured to send
netflow data at-will (i.e. not every 5 minutes and not a 5 minute
sampling).
This results in netflow data coming into the plugin at approximately
every 7
seconds or sooner depending on network traffic.

The question:  With data coming in so frequently, is storing and
averaging
ALL results for the time period or using the last update for the PDP.

>From "Ntop, persistent data and rrd" ..."Anyway, ntop isn't SUPPOSED to
make more than one update per interval."

I ask because from what we see in the reports, we see data values that
are
far too low (i.e. 30pps, 40K HTTP, etc.) for a router that is averaging
155Mbs.


Thanks for your help,
Bill


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