Having a lower expire time shouldn't influence the nfsen graphs, but it will create more netflow traffic and netflow data will take up more disk space. So, there's no advantage of having a lower expire time. Data is still processed every 5 minutes.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:58 PM Roberto Carna <robertocarn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, let me ask you a last question: > > You say nfsen cycletime (frequency to put data to graphs) is 5 minutes. > > What happens if I set the active flow timeout to 1 minute in the source > router??? Using 1 minute or 5 minutes in the source router is the same > result from the nfsen graphs point of view??? > > Special thanks !!! > > El mar., 21 abr. 2020 a las 12:49, Roberto Carna (< > robertocarn...@gmail.com>) escribió: > >> Thanks a lot to all of you. >> >> Regards!!! >> >> El mar., 21 abr. 2020 a las 12:06, Giles Coochey (<gi...@coochey.net>) >> escribió: >> >>> >>> On 21/04/2020 15:45, Roberto Carna wrote: >>> > Hi Giles, I'll read them right now. >>> > >>> > But from nfsen side, is it possible to change 5 minutes cycle time to >>> > a lower value, let's say 1 minute ??? I mean the interval that Nfsen >>> > writes the data to the graphs. >>> > >>> > Thanks again, regards !!! >>> >>> It needs to be done on the router side. Nfsen will not know about the >>> flow stats until the router sends detail about it. So the timeout has to >>> happen on the router, you can set the value on the router to 60 seconds >>> if you wish to get upto the minute flow information, but Nfsen will, by >>> default, only update every 5 minutes anyway. >>> >>> Netflow and SNMP are two very different things, with SNMP only looking >>> at packet counters, whereas, Netflow providing flow information, the two >>> graphs will never look exactly the same. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ > Nfsen-discuss mailing list > Nfsen-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfsen-discuss >
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