Saying Goodbye to Hierarchical Clusters in ntopng
The hierarchical cluster architecture was originally introduced to allow multiple ntopng instances to be organized in a parent/child topology. Child instances collected and analyzed local traffic, while parent instances aggregated information from multiple children to provide a centralized view of the network. At the time, this approach addressed a common requirement: monitoring geographically distributed sites while maintaining a central point of visibility. However, networking environments and the ntop ecosystem have both evolved considerably since then. Building a distributed deployment with nProbe and ntopng Today, the same use cases can be …
