How to Install flow-tools in Ubuntu 18.04



Install flow-tools by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install flow-tools

Description:

collects and processes NetFlow data

Flow-tools is library and a collection of programs used to collect, send, process, and generate reports from NetFlow data. The tools can be used together on a single server or distributed to multiple servers for large deployments. The flow-tools library provides an API for development of custom applications for NetFlow export versions 1,5,6 and the 14 currently defined version 8 subversions. A Perl and Python interface have been contributed and are included in the package. . A NetFlow is network traffic information exported (via UDP) to an external machine. The external machine processes such information to produce network traffic accounting, network billing, network monitoring, etc.

Homepage: http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/

Version: 1:0.68-12.5build3

Section: universe/net