Robert,

See option

[--collector-sample-rate] <value>   | Specify the bytes/pkts collection
sample rate (NetFlow only).


Regards,
Simone

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Robert Williams <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’ve just bought a license for nprobe so I can test without the 25k flow
> limit, the setup is simple:
>
>        [Cisco] -> Netflow V9 -> [nprobe] -> zmq -> [ntopng]
>
> The Cisco uses 1 in 20 sampling for Netflow, but I can’t seem to find
> where to inform nprobe (or ntopng) of this sampling? The result of this is
> that all data in ntopng is shown as 1/20th of real rates.
>
> One of the other programs we use to analyse Netflow data here has a
> parameter for it, which is:
>
>        netflow_sampling_ratio = 20
>
> So that it knows to 'upscale' the flow data, essentially, I’m just looking
> for this parameter in nprobe/ntopng.
>
> The only one I found is within nprobe and looks like this:
>
> [--sample-rate|-S] : <pkt rate>:<flow rate>
> | Packet capture sampling rate and flow
> | sampling rate. If starts with
> | '@' it means that nprobe will report
> | the specified sampling rate but will
> | not sample itself as incoming packets
> | are already sampled on the specified
> | capture device at the specified rate.
> | Default: 1:1 [no sampling]
>
> However – this doesn’t seem to let me configure a sampling rate for flows
> for ‘reporting only’. Just a sample ratio for mirrored traffic, which of
> course I’m not using.
>
> Any input welcome - Cheers!
>
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