On Apr 23, "Chris Moore - GMD" wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm beginning the process of deploying Ntop for key interfaces throughout my
> network. My original idea was to deploy one Ntop box per interface and
> naming them according to what they're monitoring, but that adds up to a lot
> of machines. In some cases I'll just put multiple NICs in a box to
> consolidate them to fewer machines. 
> 
> But in some cases it's more practical to use sFlow rather than a mirrored
> port. But to do this using one Ntop box, I need to figure out how to
> configure and (hopefully) uniquely name multiple sFlow virtual interfaces,
> running multiple sFlow plugins listening to different ports. So far I've
> been unable to find any discussion about how/if this might be accomplished.
> 
> In other words (in case I garbled the above), when a user clicks on "Switch
> NICs" they might see something like this:
> 
>       Available Network Interfaces:
>       
>       *Eth0
>       *sFlow - Router 1
>       *sFlow - Router 2
> 
> Any ideas/resources?

Would it amount to a lot of wasted cycles to run multiple instances of
ntop on the same machine, one per desired sflow interface?
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