Set of passive network monitoring daemons that collect NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, BGP and BMP data and export traffic accounting to databases or message brokers.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free
- Open source
- Yes (GPL-2.0)
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Launched
- 2003
- Status
- Active
- Website
- github.com
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Network monitoring checklist
1 of 10 confirmed in pmacct's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Network.
- SNMP polling Not confirmed
- Flow analysis Yes
- Device discovery Not confirmed
- Topology maps No
- Latency and path Not confirmed
- Bandwidth graphs No
- Syslog and traps Not confirmed
- Configuration backup Not confirmed
- Alerting Not confirmed
- Wireless Not confirmed
Flow collector/accounting daemons (nfacctd/sfacctd) with no UI of its own.
Checked against: github.com, github.com (2)
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