Mailing List Archive: ntopng zmq format reference

Dear Marat,

The quickest thing you can do to figure out the message format is jumping
directly to the source code of ntopng.

Specifically, look at class CollectorInterface for the ZMQ communication
logic, and at class ParserInterface for the actual parsing of data sent
through ZMQ.

Presently, three ZMQ topics are supported by ntopng: const char *topics[] =
{ "flow", "event", "counter", NULL };

Flows travel in the "flow" topic.

If you want to send flows to ntopng, what you should do is implement a ZMQ
publisher (see zmq_socket and related) and start publishing messages with
topic "flow" using zmq_send.

Regards,
Simone

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Marat Khalili <mkh@rqc.ru> wrote:

> Good time of the day,
>
> I have created a script that obtains traffic info from Cisco ASA by
> polling its command line (since I'm having problems with NetFlow). It would
> now be nice to to able to feed this info to ntopng. I understand that
> ntopng consumes zmq, but where can I get description of specific messages
> that ntopng understands?
>
>
> --
>
> With Best Regards,
> Marat Khalili
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