Re: [opennms-discuss] Enable Net Flow in opennms 1.8.10

[Mozzi <moz...@gm...>]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:13:10 -0700
Ken Eshelby <esh...@gm...> wrote:

> OpenNMS does not support netflow collection. I am not sure I would
> want it to without being able to separate flow collection and
> analysis to its own server.
> 
> All that linked guide appears to do is instruct on how to set netflow
> parameters with SNMP and collect some information *about* a
> netflow-enabled device.
> 
> If you want to actually collect flows and display results, I would
> look at a commercial product like Scrutinizer.  You could cobble
> together a collector/analyzer with something like flow-tools and
> rrdtool for free, but it is a time-intensive operation to get things
> setup.  Depending on your traffic loads netflow collection can be
> very resource-intensive.

ntop does this beutifully :-)
http://www.ntop.org/news.php

Mozzi