This is an application for consuming netflow v5,7,9 data using NFDUMP, iNotify, Binary-ASCII coverter, and Splunk!
"splunk flowy flowy" is an amalgamation of
- NFCAPD
- iNotify
- nfcapd-ascii bash script
- logrotate
- tito (for the RPM)
- cron (to handle scheduling)
- init scripts (to handle service starting)
- puppet (out of scope - but to get this built/rebuilt/rebuilt/......rebuilt and stable)
- custom Splunk app: splunk-flowy-flowy :)
This cisco whitepaper on the relevant fields for extracting data from flows was helpful when we built the app.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technologies/tk648/tk362/technologies_white_paper09186a00800a3db9.html
We also used the field references here
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3954.txt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetFlow
We rely on nfcapd to get data into binary and off the stack.
We rely on inotify to get data out of binary nfcapd into ascii format
http://linuxaria.com/article/introduction-inotify?lang=en
https://github.com/sometheycallme/splunk-flowy-flowy/wiki
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