Flowatcher

Flowatcher is a real-time flow-based traffic monitoring tool for 10 Gbit Ethernet. This is built on DPDK (http://dpdk.org/), and based in part on the work of the libwebsockets project (https://libwebsockets.org/).

Installation

1. Install the dependencies (see below)
2. git submodule update --init
3. ./build.sh
4. ./setup-dpdk.sh
5. ./run.sh (Run Flowatcher App)

Note: The scripts work on x86_64 Linux.

Requirements

• NICs supported by DPDK
  • for capturing traffic
• 16GB memory

Dependencies

• gcc
• make
• cmake (2.8 or greater)
• openssl (for building libwebsockets)
• zlib-devel
• openssl-devel
• kernel headers (for the DPDK igb-uio driver)

for Debian/Ubuntu:

# apt-get install gcc make cmake openssl zlib1g-dev libssl-dev linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Run Flowatcher App

• Start processing packets

# ./run.sh

• Get real-time monitoring
  • Access below with your browser, then get a sample client page
  • Port number is configurable in src/config.h

http://[IP address of your host running App]:7681/