I don't know how it's calculated in detail - you can probably find out by
looking at nfdump.c.

Most likely it takes the total number of flows and divides it to the time
interval, but I can't get the same answer as you when doing that
calculation.

Best is to look in the source file.


On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Amir Choudhri <amirchoud...@hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Thanks Adrian,
>
> So if i understand you correctly, NFsen uses the flows processed value of
> 65 to derive a flows/second value of 110 million flows?
>
> Do you know the detail of how this is calculated?
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:53:09 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Nfsen-discuss] Graph Metrics
> From: adrian.popa...@gmail.com
> To: amirchoud...@hotmail.com
> CC: nfsen-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
>
>
> 110m is 110 mili flows/s. The 65 flows that came make up for a low
> flows/second count.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Amir Choudhri 
> <amirchoud...@hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>  Hi guys,
>
> I'm new to NFSEN and have set it up over the last few days, so far i have
> been very impressed.  I mainly use it for NSEL events from Cisco ASA
> devices, i have using nfsen-1.3.6p1 and nfdump-1.5.8-2-NSEL.
>
> The only issue i have is intepretting the graphs for the 'Flow' and
> 'Packet' detail.  For example, If i take a single time window in NFSEN and
> check the FLOW graph it shows '110 m', if i look at a NFDUMP breakdown
> there is nothing that correlates to that figure:
>
> Summary: total flows: 65, total bytes: 8358, total packets: 65, avg bps:
> 307, avg pps: 0, avg bpp: 128
> Time window: 2012-12-05 03:50:27 - 2012-12-05 03:54:04
> Total flows processed: 65, Records skipped: 0, Bytes read: 7832
> Sys: 0.000s flows/second: 0.0        Wall: 0.006s flows/second: 10633.1
>
> Does someone know how these graph values match up ? The Byte count values
> seem to be accurate.
>
> Amir
>
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