If it's restarting every five minutes then something is surely wrong. It should start ONCE and run forever...
Check the configuration page for the plugin, the plugins page and the log for some kind of error message. Check your directory permissions too. -----Burton > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Michael Baird > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 2:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Ntop] Ntop & RRDtool > > > I've just migrated to the 3.0 version of ntop. I turned on the rrd > graphing options (default settings). The rrd directory was created and I > see interface directory's created within (Netflow-device, and eth0), and > I see many .rrd files created. My understanding was that I could click > on the Info about host link and see some of the historical data via the > rrd tables, I don't get anything unless the site runs a webserver. I'm > not sure what I'm missing. > > I have read the documentation and pdf on sourceforge. > > I'm starting ntop with the following syntax. > ntop -n -d -g -p /etc/protocol.list -P /var/lib/ntop -u ntop -t 0 -o > -M -m 10.0.0.1/19 > > Looking at syslog I see these notices every 5 minutes, which indicates > to me the rrd plugin is working as expected. > > May 18 13:33:59 mon ntop[23896]: RRD: Welcome to rrdPlugin. (C) > 2002-04 by Luca Deri. > May 18 13:33:59 mon ntop[23896]: RRD: Welcome to the RRD plugin > May 18 13:33:59 mon ntop[23896]: RRD: Mask for new directories is 0755 > May 18 13:33:59 mon ntop[23896]: RRD: Mask for new files is 0022 > May 18 13:33:59 mon ntop[23896]: RRD: Started thread (81926) for data > collection. > May 18 13:39:45 mon ntop[23910]: RRD: Locking mutex (may block for a > little while) > May 18 13:39:45 mon ntop[23910]: RRD: Locked mutex, continuing > shutdown > May 18 13:39:45 mon ntop[23910]: RRD: killThread() succeeded > May 18 13:39:45 mon ntop[23910]: RRD: Thanks for using the rrdPlugin > May 18 13:39:45 mon ntop[23910]: RRD: Done > May 18 13:39:52 mon ntop[27376]: RRD: Welcome to rrdPlug > > So, I'm wondering what I'm missing, or where I've tripped up. > > Regards > MIKE > > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
