Thanks again Gary,
I appreciate the suggestion that ntop can hold stats for longer based
on recompiles across edits of something or other in globals-defines.h. I will
start seeking. Any more specific advice would be appreciated.
However, in the meantime... not sure why I did not see this before, but
the"TCP/UDP Traffic Port Distribution: Last Minute View" section of the
Summary::Traffic report is (almost) exactly what I want. I just need it to
persist a little longer. Can I get a "last day" view or a "last two days" view?
--
Live strong,
Ricky Charlet
On Sep 9, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Gary Gatten wrote:
> I can't comment on the dev part - I'm just a lowly user!
>
> Ntop CAN hold some stats for 24+ hours, but requires some tweaks via startup
> args and/or globals-defines.h (which requires a recompile). Ie:, sticky
> hosts, idle session purge time, idle host purge time, etc.
>
> FWIW I think Wireshark will do what you want more easily. Are you familiar
> with it? Most just use it as a simple packet capture tool, but it tracks all
> kinds of stats and has flow/ conversation "reports" - such as this flow has x
> Bytes TX and y bytes RX.
>
> 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 2:04 PM
> To: <n...@unipi.it>
> Cc: ntop@listgateway.unipi.it
> Subject: Re: [Ntop] using ntop to see flows report
>
> Thanks Gary,
>
> I have a traffic generator application. It simulates many thousands of
> clients and servers -- lots and lots of unique flows, somewhat distinguised
> by dest-port (app) but mosty distinguished by source port. I what to know
> what it did for the last run of (1 ~ 60*24) minutes.
>
> During my traffic generator testrun, I do see "Active Sessions" at the
> bottom of a Hosts::<click-an-ip> report.
>
> I need bytes sent/received per interface per flow. I would also
> appreciate tcp retransmission counts, flow counts, interface error counts. I
> am willing to go with the roll-my-own rdd-querries with few helpful hints
> from the community if that is what it takes.
>
> Please let me know if you see a path to victory here and if ntop-dev
> team would be willing to make it so.
>
> --
> Live strong,
> Ricky Charlet
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 9, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Gary Gatten wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Live strong,
>> Ricky Charlet
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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