The systems responsible for managing, building, and processing flow records are called flow-record processing systems. An FRPS consists of the following components:
- Sensor: Monitors the network for all the traffic flows, and generates flow records for these flows.
- Collector: A server application that receives flow records from the sensor and stores it the drive. There can be many collectors on a network.
- Aggregator: Used to aggregate, sort, and manage data coming from multiple sources (collectors).
- Analyzer: Analyzes the bits and bytes of data, and produces meaningful information that reveals a wide variety of problems.
Sensors are responsible for creating flow records. A sensor can vary from ...