Is there an open source netflow collector C++ library set?

Question

I am looking for a C++ library set to develop my own C++ daemon in Linux for collecting NetFlow information. Does anyone know of an open source one or a library set that is available?

Many thanks

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 18 '10 at 14:54

2

Have you tried Googling? There are plenty of daemons for NetFlow available, for Linux and BSD flavors:

answered Jun 18 '10 at 14:54

Andrei Sosnin

720
6
16

I have but I require DB support and we already have our own DB so it needs to fit this. Therefore I thought it may be the best plan to look at a library set as we have done for net-snmp. – aHunter Jun 18 '10 at 14:58

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 15 '12 at 20:12

For a stand-alone library, you can try "libipfix". It implements the newer IETF IPFIX protocol, but also understands Netflow v9 (on which IPFIX is based). But I don't think it can process older Netflow versions (v1 and v5 are common), so this is probably only useful if your Netflow-exporting devices support Netflow v9.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 28 '11 at 05:44

1

FWIW - take a look also at http://code.google.com/p/flowd/ - it's small and BSD-licensed, so you should be able to tweak it according to your needs. (I'm not affiliated with it at all, just used a few times, and liked the tiny footprint).

answered Jun 28 '11 at 05:44

Andrew Y

5,107
2
28
29

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 18 '21 at 22:17

"Vermont" is an open source modular Ipfix/Netflow probe/aggregator/collector application written in C++. It can be configured in a wide variety of ways to collect and process flow related information. It has reasonable documentation with examples detailing how to combine it's modules.

Vermont

Is there an open source netflow collector C++ library set?

4 Answers4