Hello all,

I'm having some trouble importing old data into nfsen and I wondered  
if you might be able to give me any suggestions as to where I'm going  
wrong.

I'm having to use the version of nfsen which was modified by Gabor  
Kiss to use the Holt Winters prediction information from rrdtool, so  
I am unable to upgrade easily. I have been given a lot of data in  
flowtools archive format, which I have been using ft2ndump to convert  
into nfdump format and I have altered the file names such that they  
match the default output needed for nfsen.

First of all I was trying to add each lot of data as a new source in  
my running version of nfsen, but I understand that with the version  
Gabor used there are some issues with adding new sources.
To get around that I have been creating a new instance of nfsen,  
importing the old data and rebuilding the profile to add the data  
before starting nfsen up. I have found that when I ask for the status  
of my profile, it has picked up the correct start and end dates for  
the flows, and it appears to load properly, but when I come to look  
at the graphs all I can see is one small spike for one particular  
moment in time during the two week timeframe the data covers. When  
using the details tab to check what is going on, the statistics show  
as much as 441.2 flows /s, and using the netflow processing section I  
can see all the flows for that time period as viewed using 'nfdump - 
r', but the graphs show no data at all.

After having read some mailing list posts, I am wondering if the  
problem is that the archived data I have is in 15 minute chunks  
rather than 5, and that this is causing nfsen issues in creating an  
updated rrd-database to allow data from before its initial creation  
date, would that make any sense? Or can anyone see anything else  
glaringly wrong with what I've been doing?

Any advice anyone could give would be *greatly* appreciated.

Sara

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