ntopng - You're not supposed to be here!
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Curious but do you guys leave ntopng running constantly in the background? Just wondering if you use it for some type of historical feature or something like that.
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@michmoor I let it run continiously because “diagnostics use” usually requires quick intervention and perhaps has a great advantage of being able to see trends for the last couple of minutes.
But to be honest ntopng is notoriously buggy, and I have to restart the package once in a while because it stops generating alerts, and starts showing LUA error text instead of trends when clicking on a client.
Also: Ntopng has very little usable historical data.- it only has some client trends, timeline datavolume and protocol distribution. It really is a near realtime/realtime tool.
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@michmoor Yup, keep it running all the time. It's great to help me see which clients are are consuming bandwidth, for example, and I also look at historic bandwidth usage on an interface.
I've done a complete uninstall and re-install, and disabled some features that I didn't need. It's been quite stable and I no longer get the error messages.
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As I've stated here
On the left menu bar at the lower end there is the option "Developer"
hoover over it, select "Plugins" on the top right select "Reload Plugins"
It should again be working now -
I tried everything. Even on a fresh install of pfsense - after some time the error would come back. Restarting it fixes it for a while but it always comes back.
But what worked for me is switching the time series database from RRD to InfluxDB. Since doing that the error has never come back. -
@josef said in ntopng - You're not supposed to be here!:
I tried everything. Even on a fresh install of pfsense - after some time the error would come back. Restarting it fixes it for a while but it always comes back.
But what worked for me is switching the time series database from RRD to InfluxDB. Since doing that the error has never come back.Very interesting. Does the package install and configure the influxDB service on its own, or do you have to configure that separately? Perhaps you could post the steps you went through to get it going using influxDB?
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@josef Bump - Did you see my question in the earlier post?
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No, unfortunately you will need your own InfluxDB server.
Ntop only provides the ability to connect to and use an external InfluxDB server. -
@josef said in ntopng - You're not supposed to be here!:
No, unfortunately you will need your own InfluxDB server.
Ntop only provides the ability to connect to and use an external InfluxDB server.Thanks for clarifying :-)
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@user202 said in ntopng - You're not supposed to be here!:
As I've stated here
On the left menu bar at the lower end there is the option "Developer"
hoover over it, select "Plugins" on the top right select "Reload Plugins"
It should again be working nowThis worked for me, thanks!