Understanding nprobe

Andreas Brück <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Jun 2019 10:50:38 +0200
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Hello everybody,

i have build up a virtual test environment to get familiar with flow 
monitoring. I installed ntop on a server and nprobe on a gateway 
(provides access to the internet). I hoped that nprobe is collecting all 
the traffic/flows and send it to the ntop server. But it does not work 
work me. I don't see any flows if i check it on the ntop web gui. Both 
machines could ping each other and no firewall is between them.

I used the following configuration:

Ntop-server (ip-address: 194.95.66.100, interface: enp0s8):

- ntopng -i enp0s8 -i tcp://8.8.8.1:5556

Gateway (ip-address: 8.8.8.1, interface: enp0s8):

- nprobe --zmq tcp://8.8.8.1:5556 -i enp0s8 -n none -T @NTOPNG@

If i check the sockets with "ss" there is a established zmq connection 
listed between this to server. I also can choose the interface 
"tcp://8.8.8.1:5556" in the ntop web gui. But no traffic will be 
reported to ntop. I generated traffic with iperf, which comes from a 
third server. This traffic transited the gateway interface enp0s8 with 
the ip address 8.8.8.1.

It is possible that i missundertood the function of nprobe? Can i use 
only nprobe instead of sflow to collect flows or it is necessary to 
combine them? I hope anyone could help me. Thank you very much in advance.

Regard,

Andreas
<https://dict.leo.org/german-english/misunderstood>



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    <p><tt>Hello everybody,</tt></p>
    <p><tt>i have build up a virtual test environment to get familiar
        with flow monitoring. I installed ntop on a server and nprobe on
        a gateway (provides access to the internet). I hoped that nprobe
        is collecting all the traffic/flows and send it to the ntop
        server. But it does not work work me. I don't see any flows if i
        check it on the ntop web gui. Both machines could ping each
        other and no firewall is between them.<br>
      </tt></p>
    <p><tt>I used the following configuration:</tt></p>
    <p><tt>Ntop-server (ip-address: 194.95.66.100, interface: enp0s8):</tt></p>
    <p><tt>- ntopng -i enp0s8 -i tcp://8.8.8.1:5556</tt></p>
    <p><tt>Gateway (ip-address: 8.8.8.1, interface: enp0s8):</tt></p>
    <p><tt>- nprobe --zmq tcp://8.8.8.1:5556 -i enp0s8 -n none -T
        @NTOPNG@</tt></p>
    <p><tt>If i check the sockets with "ss" there is a established zmq
        connection listed between this to server. I also can choose the
        interface "tcp://8.8.8.1:5556" in the ntop web gui. But no
        traffic will be reported to ntop. I generated traffic with
        iperf, which comes from a third server. This traffic transited
        the gateway interface enp0s8 with the ip address 8.8.8.1.</tt></p>
    <p><tt>It is possible that i missundertood the function of nprobe?
        Can i use only nprobe instead of sflow to collect flows or it is
        necessary to combine them? I hope anyone could help me. Thank
        you very much in advance.</tt></p>
    <p><tt>Regard,</tt></p>
    <p><tt>Andreas</tt><br>
      <tt></tt><tt><a
          href="https://dict.leo.org/german-english/misunderstood"><mark></mark></a></tt>
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