trafic flow monitoring setup - PRTG

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I am trying to monitor traffic on local network interface (P2_LAN_7).
PRTG probe is placed on computer running Win 10 inside this LAN - 192.168.7.221 (collector).
Mikrotik IP 192.168.7.254 (sender).

result on sensor “No data since startup”

i have also tried the Netflow collector tester (on the same pc) but I am still not getting any data.
https://www.paessler.com/tools/netflowtester

Is there a chance that Mikrotik itself is blocking data being sent to LAN 192.168.7.X ?


• /ip traffic-flow set
• interfaces=P2_LAN_7
• cache-entries=2k
• active-flow-timeout=30m ((timeout on sensor is set to 31m according recommendations))
• inactive-flow-timeout=15s
• enabled=yes


• /iptraffic-flowtarget
• add disabled=no
• dst-address=192.168.7.221
• port=1234
• src-address=0.0.0.0
• v9-template-refresh=20
• v9-template-timeout=30m
• version=ipfix
collector ipfix.pdf (122 KB)
SCR-20230305-o8v.png

2

Did you try to actually put something in the “Source Address” in the target config ?
So in stead of 0.0.0.0 put 192.168.7.254 or whatever the IP on the MT side.

I’m using Netflow to (towards Splunk) and this just works.

3

is there free edition of Splunk to use?

4

Sure, Splunk is free upto 500MBytes per day
Now remember Netflow does not just work “out of the box” , you need an App for that (Splunk Stream) (so no "click-click-click ready)
And there is no set of nice details dashboard on Netflow, you need to create that yourself based in the data that is in the database.