Introduction

flow-tools is library and a collection of programs used to collect, send, process, and generate reports from NetFlow data. The tools can be used together on a single server or distributed to multiple servers for large deployments. The flow-tools library provides an API for development of custom applications for NetFlow export versions 1,5,6 and the 14 currently defined version 8 subversions.

This project is the active fork to old OSU flow-tools project, which is largely unmaintained at the moment.

Downloads

Current version of flow-tools is 0.68.5.1 and it can be downloaded here: flow-tools-0.68.5.1.tar.bz2.

Contents

Base

• flow-capture(1);
• flow-cat(1);
• flow-dscan(1);
• flow-expire(1);
• flow-export(1);
• flow-fanout(1);
• flow-filter(1);
• flow-gen(1);
• flow-header(1);
• flow-import(1);
• flow-mask(1);
• flow-merge(1);
• flow-nfilter(1);
• flow-print(1);
• flow-receive(1);
• flow-report(1);
• flow-send(1);
• flow-split(1);
• flow-stat(1);
• flow-tag(1);
• flow-xlate(1);

RRD interface

• flow-log2rrd(1);
• flow-rpt2rrd(1);
• flow-rptfmt(1);