[c-nsp] And the best free netflow analyzer is.......

[Wojtek Zlobicki]

Congrats,

Looks like the site just got /nsp'd :)


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:31:04 +0200, Per Carlson <ml at carlson.homeunix.net> wrote:
> On 2004-09-29 03:30, Brian Feeny wrote:
> 
> > What are the top options for a free, intuitive netflow analysis
> > package?  Something with some nice
> > charts and good data.  Mostly for looking at AS traffic levels.  Not
> > just cflowd, but something you have to hack at
> > less and results out of with a little less work (Yes in the past I have
> > written a ton of perl scripts to grok
> > cflowd stuff, but I am looking for something better).
> 
> There was an announcement today of such a tool in the flow-tools mailing
> list. From the announcement:
> 
> ---
> 
> We are proud to announce the public release of our GPL licensed network
> statistics tool Stager. Stager is a system for aggregation and
> presentation of network statistics from the flow-tools package.
> 
> More info:
>     http://stager.uninett.no
> 
> Test the public version of Stager running on our network:
>     https://stager.uninett.no
> 
> This initial release is a beta release.
> _____________
> Release notes
> 
> Stager is a system for aggregation and presentation of Network
> statistics. Version 1.0 beta is tailored to present NetFlow data
> processed with the flow-tools package. However, the system is generic
> and can be customized to present and process any kind of network
> statistics. Future versions of Stager will be developed with the focus
> on greater generality for other types of measurements.
> 
> The Stager backend collect data with flow-tools, and stores reports in a
> PostgreSQL database server. Background routines handle aggregation of
> hourly statistics into day, week and month etc. via cron. A dynamic web
> front-end presents the reports to users. The web front-end can present
> user-selected data in tables, matrix or plots. Multiple time periods
> and/or observation points can be plotted or presented simultaneously for
> convenient comparison of data.
> 
> The Stager reports are fully customizable and their view definitions are
> stored in the database. The following reports are provided with Stager
> out-of-the box:
> - Destination Interface distribution
> - IP Protocol distribution
> - IP Type of Service distribution
> - IP Source Address
> - IP Destination Address
> - IP Source/Destination Matrix
> - Source AS
> - Destination AS
> - Source/Destination AS Matrix
> - Transport Layer Source Port distribution
> - Transport Layer Destination Port distribution
> - Summary Report
> 
> Stager is based on Perl, PHP and PostgreSQL. The backend may run
> distributed on several hosts, and collect data to one or more database
> servers. Both the backend and the frontend are developed and tested on
> Linux but should run on most UNIX-based operating systems.
> 
> --
> 
>  Espen Breivik & Andreas Åkre Solberg
>  Uninett AS
> 
> ----
> 
> Per
> 
> 
> 
> 
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