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VERSION. 0.12.0rc1 DESCRIPTION. pmacct is a small set of passive network monitoring tools to measure, account, classify, aggregate and export IPv4 and IPv6 traffic; a pluggable and flexible architecture allows to store collected network data into memory tables or SQL (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL) databases and export them through NetFlow or sFlow protocols to remote collectors. pmacct supports fully customizable historical data breakdown, flow sampling, filtering and tagging, recovery actions, and triggers. Libpcap, sFlow v2/v4/v5 and NetFlow v1/v5/v7/v8/v9 are supported, both unicast and multicast. Also, a client program makes it easy to export data to tools like RRDtool, GNUPlot, Net-SNMP, MRTG, and Cacti. HOMEPAGE. http://www.pmacct.net/ DOWNLOAD. http://www.pmacct.net/pmacct-0.12.0rc1.tar.gz CHANGELOG. + a BGP daemon thread has been integrated in both the NetFlow and sFlow collectors, nfacctd and sfacctd. It maintains per- peer RIBs and supports MP-BGP (IPv4, IPv6) and 32-bit ASNs. As a result the following configuration directives are being introduced: bgp_daemon, bgp_daemon_ip, bgp_daemon_max_peers, bgp_daemon_port and bgp_daemon_msglog. For a quick-start and implementation notes refer to EXAMPLES document and detailed configuration directives description in CONFIG-KEYS. + A new set of BGP-related aggregation primitives are now supported by the "aggregate" directive: std_comm, ext_comm, as_path, peer_src_ip, peer_dst_ip, peer_src_as, peer_dst_as, med, local_pref. A few extra directives are being introduced to support (filter, map, cut down, etc.) some primitives: bgp_peer_src_as_type, bgp_peer_src_as_map, bgp_aspath_radius, bgp_stdcomm_pattern and bgp_extcomm_pattern. + nfacctd_as_new supports a new value "bgp". It is meant to populate src_as and dst_as primitives by looking up source and destination IP prefixes against the NetFlow (or sFlow) agent RIB. + A new sql_table_type directive is introduced: by combining it with sql_table_version, defines one of the standard BGP tables. + Two new directives have been developed to support scenarios where NetFlow (or sFlow) agents are not running BGP or have default-only or partial views: bgp_follow_default and bgp_agent_map. + 4-bytes ASNs are now supported: including NetFlow and sFlow collectors, NetFlow and sFlow probes, networks_file to map prefixes to ASNs. The new BGP daemon implementation is, of course, fully compliant. + Pre-Tagging: the ID is now a 32-bit unsigned value (it was 16-bit). As a result, there valid tags can be in the range 1-4294967295 and maps can now express the resulting ID as an IPv4 address (ie. bgp_agent_map). + Pre-tagging: support for 32-bit input/output interfaces is now available. ! fix, sql_common.c: read_SQLquery_from_file() was returning a random value, regardless of the successful result. Patch has been provided provided by Giedrius Liubavicius ! fix, pmacct.c: when unused, source/destination IP address fields were presented as NULL values. This is now replaced with a '0' value to improve output parsing. ! Standard major release compilation check-pointing: thanks very much to Manuel Pata and Tobias Lott for their strong support with OpenBSD and FreeBSD respectively. NOTES. See UPGRADE document for notes about upgrading an existing installation <= 0.11 to 0.12; in brief two minor points are worth of consideration: * agent_id size and SQL table schemas * nfprobe plugin: NetFlow v9 and 32-bit ASNs Cheers, Paolo _______________________________________________ pmacct-discussion mailing list http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists
