Shawn’s Admin Corner I

While testing our Netflow changes for v3.4.1 (coming out next quarter), I came upon a great free piece of software I thought others might be interested in called ProcessMaker.  I figured that as long as people keep expressing interest in the technology we’re using, I will continue to highlight new technology I come across.

So, for my first post of this type I am going to discuss softflowd.    This open source (BSD license) agent can run on practically any server platform and has the capability to listen to an interface port, queue packet transmissions, and send compiled conversations as Netflow standard packets to a scalable Netflow collection platform (in my case Monolith).    This allows customers who do not have Netflow (or a variant) a way to deploy a lightweight server/workstation on a tap or spanned switch port setup (configured to listen to all traffic).   It’s a great agent and fairly stable and I recommend you take a look if you are in need – it might be just what the doctor ordered.

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