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.\" $Id: netams.8,v 1.8 2008-01-03 12:44:53 anton Exp $
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.TH NETAMS 8 "24 November 2004"
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NeTAMS is a Network Traffic Accounting and Monitoring Software.
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is a Network Traffic Accounting and Monitoring Software. It works as a
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daemon for FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris operating systems. Supported traffic
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information sources are tee/divert/ip_queue/libpcap/netflow v5; storages are
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BerkleyDB/MySQL/PostgresSQL. Various aggregation, vizualisation and notification
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ways are implemented. Authorization, quotas, bandwidth control, flexible accounting and
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blocking policies are also here.
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specifies an alternate configuration file to use.
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turn logging to file on
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turn logging to syslog on
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specifies an alternate pid file to use.
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do not create a pid file (by default, pid file created while options -l or -L used)
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do not produce any output
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.SH SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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You can run NeTAMS in three different modes depending on data source type:
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allows you to capture all traffic on specified interface, exactly
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collects all NetFlow v5 UDP packets coming from Cisco router or external flow producer like
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flowprobe/ipfw2netflow/ng_netflow. You don't need in any additional system features
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to run libpcap or netflow accounting, but you cannot do any filtering with these data sources.
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captures all IP traffic going via your UNIX router, and you need to prepare system for that.
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If you system is FreeBSD, your kernel configuration must have:
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otherwise you will be not able to pass data packets to the program. Type
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"dmesg" and have a look.
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If you have Linux, you must use kernels 2.4.* or above, and iptables. Your
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system must have netfilter package and libipq library properly installed;
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both are typically not in a default installation. You should visit
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http://www.netfilter.org site, read the documentation, download, install it
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and rebuild a kernel. Or at least check 'modprobe ip_queue'.
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For a serious work, install the SQL database,
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http://www.mysql.com or http://postgresql.org, and do
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not use unix hash database from libdb (also supported by NeTAMS).
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will cause log file to be closed and opened again.
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will terminate the program safely.
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.B /var/lib/netams/netams.conf (symlink /etc/netams/netams.conf points to it)
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Main configuration file.
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.B /var/log/netams.log
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.BR http://www.netams.com
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Anton Vinokurov <anton@netams.com>, Yuriy Shkandybin <jura@netams.com>