Not all that familiar with sFlow, but it's similar to netflow and it's WAY less intensive than a live wire capture. I have (4) high speed WAN interfaces (DS3's) being monitored with netflow and an old PIII-750 with 256MB of RAM (maybe 384MB I forget...) - CPU for nTop is LOW - like, < 5% most of the time. Memory does get low, right now it's using 374Mb total with 225MB resident. All depends on the number of hosts nTop sees and one of my DS3's is out internet connection, so I'm probably looking at 10,000 plus hosts at some points in time.
20-30 sflow interfaces should be no problem - but it's just a guess based on my netflow experience. As for XML dump and reporting, if you have programming resources you can do anything you want, assuming the XML data contains all the info you find interesting. Gary ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Perniciaro Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 3:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Ntop] Ntop Questions Hi All, I have some general question about ntop that I haven't found a good source to answer. I want to roll out ntop for collection of sFlow stats to about 20-30 interfaces, is that a good idea? Is ntop that scalable? Also, I have some questions about the xml dump, I have a solarwinds NMS suite that has a SQL backend can that XML dump be in anyway integrated to that database to generate reports? Maybe with a little bit of programming , which I have the resources for. I guess that will do it for now, I am sure the answers will spark some more questions. Thanks in advance, Tommy Perniciaro =========================================================================== "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system."
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