Monitoring API 2.0 Beta 1 review

Monitoring API project is a multi-user programming interface designed to simplify the development of network monitoring software and

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 1254K Developer: Arne Oslebo

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Monitoring API project is a multi-user programming interface designed to simplify the development of network monitoring software and allows users to express their monitoring needs in a device-independent way.

The main abstraction provided by MAPI is the network flow. Although flows have been used before in network monitoring systems, MAPI gives flows a first-class status. Applications that uses MAPI can specify what flows or flow statistics they are interested in by applying functions to flows.

A MAPI function can be a BPF filter, string search, packet counter or more advanced like a NetFlow generator. These function will automatically run in hardware if there is support for it on the hardware being used.

MAPI currently supports the following hardware:

- Normal NICs through libpcap
- DAG cards without co-processor
- SCAMPI adapter

What's New in This Release:
This release includes support for distributed monitoring, several new MAPI functions, demo applications, and a lot of bugfixes.