I am getting an error stating that the max number of sessions has been reached. When this occurs, all monitoring stops and only reports the stats at the time of the error. Any ideas?
NTOP LOG------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t3026811824]: NPA: network packet analyzer (packet processor) thread running [p17459]
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t3018419120]: SFP: Fingerprint scan thread starting [p17459]
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t3010026416]: SIH: Idle host scan thread starting [p17459]
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t3001633712]: DNSAR(1): Started thread for DNS address resolution
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 Calling plugin start functions (if any)
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 SSL: Initializing...
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 SSL_PRNG: Automatically initialized!
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 SSL initialized successfully
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 INITWEB: Initializing web server
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 INITWEB: Initializing tcp/ip socket connections for web server
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 INITWEB: Initialized ssl socket, port 443, address (any)
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 INITWEB: Waiting for HTTPS (SSL) connections on port 443
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 INITWEB: Starting web server
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t2979724208]: INITWEB: Started thread for web server
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 Listening on [eth0]
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 Loading Plugins
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 Searching for plugins in /usr/lib/ntop/plugins
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 NETFLOW: Welcome to NetFlow.(C) 2002-05 by Luca Deri
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 RRD: Welcome to Round-Robin Databases. (C) 2002-04 by Luca Deri.
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 XMLDUMP: Welcome to XML data dump. (C) 2003-2004 by Burton Strauss
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 LASTSEEN: Welcome to Host Last Seen. (C) 1999 by Andrea Marangoni
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 SFLOW: Welcome to sFlow.(C) 2002-04 by Luca Deri
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 SNMP: Welcome to SNMP. (C) 2004 by F.Fusco and G.Giardina
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 PDA: Welcome to PDA. (C) 2001-2005 by L.Deri and W.Brock
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 ICMP: Welcome to ICMP Watch. (C) 1999-2005 by Luca Deri
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 Calling plugin start functions (if any)
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 RRD: Welcome to the RRD plugin
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 RRD: Mask for new directories is 0700
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 RRD: Mask for new files is 0066
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT: RRD: Started thread (t2970778544) for data collection
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t3001633712]: DNSAR(1): Address resolution thread running [p17459]
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t2979724208]: WEB: Server connection thread starting [p17459]
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 Note: SIGPIPE handler set (ignore)
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t2979724208]: WEB: Server connection thread running [p17459]
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 WEB: ntop's web server is now processing requests
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t2970778544]: RRD: Data collection thread starting [p17459]
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t3058153152]: ntop RUNSTATE: INITNONROOT(3)
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 Now running as requested user 'nobody' (65534:65534)
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 **WARNING** INIT: Unable to create pid file (/var/lib/ntop/ntop.pid)
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 Note: Reporting device initally set to 0 [eth0] (merged)
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t3058153152]: ntop RUNSTATE: RUN(4)
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t2962385840]: NPS(1): Started thread for network packet sniffing
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t2962385840]: NPS(1,eth0): pcapDispatch thread starting [p17459]
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t2962385840]: NPS(1,eth0): pcapDispatch thread running [p17459]
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t3018419120]: SFP: Fingerprint scan thread running [p17459]
Fri Mar 24 20:00:13 2006 THREADMGMT[t3010026416]: SIH: Idle host scan thread running [p17459]
Fri Mar 24 20:00:23 2006 **ERROR** RRD: Disabled - unable to create base directory (err 13, /var/lib/ntop/rrd)
Sat Mar 25 05:58:53 2006 WARNING: Max num TCP sessions (65535) reached (see -X)
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