nfsen is companion tool to nfdump. Where nfdump handles the capture and writing to disk of netflow records, nfsen takes the captured files and makes the data available through a web interface. Continue reading "Installing Netflow Tool: nfsen" »
Friday, March 2. 2007
Installing Netflow Tool: nfsen
Installing Netflow Tool: nfdump
For a while now, I've been using the Flow-Tools set of netflow analysis tools. I've heard that Nfdump and Nfsen are the current netflow tools of choice. The weakness with Flow-tools has been in the web side. The command line tools are rich, but the graphical side has lacked a little. I'm hoping to see something better with this alternate tools set. Continue reading "Installing Netflow Tool: nfdump" »
Installing and Configuing syslog-ng
The syslogging capability that comes standard with Debian gets the job done, but offers little for flexibility. I needed something that would allow simple replication of certain log entries to a vendor's syslog server. BalaBit's syslog-ng is an excellent replacement. And dead easy to install: Continue reading "Installing and Configuing syslog-ng" »