Re: [pmacct-discussion] multiple nfacctd files being written

2015-10-22 Thread Jentsch, Mario
Hey Edward, each file contains the data of one timebin. Flows spread over a timeframe longer than one timebin cause pmacct to create/update multiple files. Depending on how long your Netflow exporter keeps the flow records before it flushes them to the collector, the created/updated files

Re: [pmacct-discussion] multiple nfacctd files being written

2015-10-22 Thread Paolo Lucente
Hi Edward, Mario is right. Plus you can set nfacctd_time_new to true to make nfacctd use the time of arrival at the collector (rather than individual flow start times) for time binning. This approach will be less precise than using flow start times; a few considerations at this propo: 1) if flow

[pmacct-discussion] 回覆: multiple nfacctd files being written

2015-10-22 Thread itriA30110
In my environment setting nfacctd_time_new to true works better because sometimes router/firewall clocks seems not synchronized. Routers and firewalls are managed by another group of people so that I never chance to find out the clock issue. Using collector's clock is much better in this