NTop 4.1 on Embedded
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After looking through the nTop package, I see that it stores it's rrd data in /var/db/ntop/rrd. Is it possible to make this work on embedded, you lose nothing since data is lost when ntop service is restarted. I am interested because I have many pfSense routers running on CF and would like to utilize nTop for bandwidth statistics. Losing data on reboots is not an issue. I understand that it was not supported on previous versions from my searches of the forums. I am not sure how native rrd graph storage was implemented pre-2.0 but I know that it is now stored in volatile storage and was hoping the same could be done with the nTop package. I would be willing to help some with this but it would be a learning curve for me since I have never worked on a custom package before.
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We had some reports of breakage for ntop on NanoBSD so it was disabled. ntop is pretty heavy in terms of footprint on the media, RAM, etc, so it didn't make a lot of sense to put a lot of effort into fixing it there.
If you have a bunch of routers, you are probably better off having them send netflow data to a central collection server so you can view them from a central database, rather than having to login to each router individually.
