Hello,

I don't THINK the report you seek exists.  First, ignore "Summary -> Network 
Flows".  It has nothing to do with anything - see the FAQ.

Next, check to see if whatever version of ntop you're using is actually 
tracking flows; aka tcp/udp sessions.  Select a busy host and scroll to the 
bottom of the report.  If you don't see a bunch of active sessions, you're 
screwed.  If they ARE there AND you have rrd configured, you MAY be able to get 
what you want with rrd queries, but I doubt it....

If you can tell me what problem you're trying to solve I can maybe recommend an 
alternative view / report.  That said, ntop is TYPICALLY best at "real-time" 
reporting and not so good at reporting on historical stuff, especially detailed 
history such as flow/conversation info.

HOWEVER  :)  There are subsets of ntop that are exposed via Python, snmp, http, 
etc. - it's possible to create the reports you want - but I really don't think 
it's possible with shipping code.

G


-----Original Message-----
From: ntop-boun...@listgateway.unipi.it 
[mailto:ntop-boun...@listgateway.unipi.it] On Behalf Of Ricky Charlet
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 12:44 PM
To: ntop@listgateway.unipi.it
Subject: [Ntop] using ntop to see flows report

Howdy,

        I'm new to ntop (for about 20 hours so far). But I know my way around 
compiling/unixOS/networking very well. 

        I can't quite figure out how to find a report in ntop which shows a 
historic list of flows. I do have several nifty reports like Summary::Traffic, 
Summary::Hosts, Summary::NetworkLoad, AllProtocols::Traffic and more. But some 
of the reports are either missing or empty. In particular, I very much want to 
see a flows report (that is sort of the reason why I started experimenting with 
an ipfix probe/collector).

        So, it turns out that bothSummary:NetworkFlows and 
Utils::Datadump::NetworkFlows are empty. Just judging by the name, I think 
those are the reports I'm interested in.

        Note that I have already found my way into Pluggins::RDD::Configure and 
enabled DataToDump=(flows, subnets, hosts, interfaces).

        I'm not sure if I'm chasing the 'right' reports and if so, if I have 
correct or incorrect config. Please help. For reasons beyond my control, I need 
a project answer here within a few hours :-(

        I can post any config, log upon request.
        

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Live strong,
Ricky Charlet






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