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Conversation view

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:37 pm
by BanditBBS
In solarwinds we can view by conversation. I can't seem to find that option in NNA. I can sort by top talkers and such, but I want to know who are having the busiest conversation.

Thanks!

Re: Conversation view

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:31 am
by jdalrymple
Create a query, aggregate by srcip,dstip - don't bother including Raw Query data if you want to query ALL your traffic. You may have to impose some sort of limit using Raw Query if you want it to finish ever.

When the Query is done sort how you wish - bytes, bytes/sec.

This is host <--> host. I was shooting to make one that aggregated by all 4 fields, but I couldn't get that to work at all for me. I'm going to do some digging in the backend and see if that's just a UI bug or if nfdump is blowing up completely.

Re: Conversation view

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 2:03 pm
by BanditBBS
Thanks man....I think we're actually getting the hang of this now :)

Re: Conversation view

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 10:23 am
by jdalrymple
I would guess that nfdump is just not smart enough to handle a query aggregating by all 4 primary fields with no raw query - it wasn't going to finish in any reasonable amount of time. I doubt there is going to be anything we can do about that.

I added a nice simple query "dst port 80 or dst port 443" and that gave me results in about 10 seconds (at the CLi)

Running the same query in the GUI, got a chord diagram in about 5 seconds, but nfdump died and my little wait spinner just sat and spun in the UI.

Is aggregating by all 4 fields going to be important? If so I'll have to run this one up to the devs to look at.

Re: Conversation view

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 10:28 am
by BanditBBS
jdalrymple wrote:Is aggregating by all 4 fields going to be important? If so I'll have to run this one up to the devs to look at.
Not for me, I don't think so.

Re: Conversation view

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 4:32 pm
by tmcdonald
Soooo... We good to close this?

Re: Conversation view

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 4:34 pm
by BanditBBS
Yes Mr. McDonald, lock 'er up!

Re: Conversation view

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 4:39 pm
by tmcdonald
Nah, you gotta do it like this:

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