Hi, please see below

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:05 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We would like to use ntopng installed on a windows laptop connected to a
> mirror port on a network switch to monitor and report on network traffic to
> determine issues across the network.
>
> Using ntopng connected to a switch port with mirror configured; is nProbe
> required?
>

it is not strictly necessary in your case. Provided that you don't need
deep packet dissection features (e.g., to dissect DNSm BGP, VoIP, etc),
then ntopng may suffice.


> We appear to still get some flows shown in ntopng with nprobe removed but
> i'm not positive the flow data is complete. Also I notice the interface
> total bandwidth graph at the bottom of the pages is not displaying any data.
>

- update ntopng to version >= 2.4
- make sure to define local networks in the configuration


>
> Could someone please let us know the basic setup for a >Smart
> Switch>?nprobe?>ntopng>Windows laptop.
>

if you are mirroring a switch port, then nprobe is not strictly necessary
provided that you don't need information extracted by nprobe plugins
http://www.ntop.org/products/netflow/nprobe/


>
> Is nProbe only required when trying to source data from a netflow or sflow
> compatible router device?
>

this is just one case. nprobe is required also for deep traffic dissection
features. It is also useful to decouple monitoring from visualization. For
example, you can deploy multiple nprobes on the vantage points of your
network and collect their results on a remote ntopng.


>
> Knowing the above intended use what would be the best install command for
> either service please?


>
> Thank you
>
> CTSG
>
>
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