Thanks for the very fast reply!
Indeed, adding the four IEs you highlighted solved the problem. IPFIX
biflows are now exported. Thank you very much!

As a sidenode: For me adding the above four IEs to the template is
enough to export biflows. It is not necessary to add the
"--bi-directional" switch. The only effect that this switch has is the
warning message that its unrecognized.

regards

Felix

On 23/08/17 11:39, Luca Deri wrote:
> Felix
> please see (-h) but in general the option below
> 
> [--biflows-export-policy|-N] <pol>  | Bi-directional flows export policy:
>                                     | 1 - export bi-directional flows only
>                                     | 2 - export mono-directional flows only
> 
> allows you to export only biflows or uniflows. THis is not what you want
> to do (export bi-directional flows). To do so please
> 1. in the -T use at lest the basic information elements such as
> protocols and bytes. nprobe should have reported this in the startup log
> 2. you need to use both IN and OUT as in the example below
> 
>  nprobe -T "%IPV4_SRC_ADDR %IPV4_DST_ADDR *%IN_PKTS
> %IN_BYTES **%OUT_PKTS %OUT_BYTES*%FIRST_SWITCHED %LAST_SWITCHED
> %L4_SRC_PORT %L4_DST_PORT %TCP_FLAGS %PROTOCOL ..."
> 
> Regards Luca
> 
> @Simone: please fix the nProbe manual
> 
> 
>> On 23 Aug 2017, at 11:27, Felix Erlacher <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear ntop team,
>>
>> I am using nprobe pro (8.1.170821) with the http plugin.
>> The nprobe manual (8.1) states that to force flows to be bidirectional
>> one should use the  "--bi-directional" switch.
>> If I run:
>>
>> sudo nprobe -n tcp://10.0.0.2:4740 -i /mynetworktrace.pcap
>> --bi-directional -V10 -T "%IPV4_SRC_ADDR %IPV4_DST_ADDR %PROTOCOL
>> %L4_SRC_PORT %L4_DST_PORT %FIRST_SWITCHED %LAST_SWITCHED %HTTP_URL
>> %HTTP_METHOD"
>>
>> it works fine but no IPFIX biflows are exported and the output says
>> "nprobe: unrecognized option '--bi-directional'".
>> I also tried adding the "--biflows-export-policy 2" switch to the above
>> command, but still the above "unrecognized option" error appears.
>>
>> Am I missing something obvious?
>> Are there any other options to export IPFIX biflows?
>>
>> thanks and regards
>>
>> Felix
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