Has anyone scripted changes to the VM appliance ( http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/388 ) to add a 2nd nic so that your admin/GUI traffic isn't counted in the network stats that NTOP is collecting?
In my installation, had to do the following:
1) create a new vswitch to associate with the sniffer interface
2) assign a physical nic to that switch
3) add a 2nd virtuial NIC to the VM
4)configure it for promiscuous mode
5) associate it with the sniffervswitch
6) boot the ntop appliance
7) edit /var/lib/ntop/init.cfg
changing eth0 to eth1
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USER="ntop"
INTERFACES="eth1"
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8) restart networking
9) restart ntop