Tag: cento

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Introducing nProbe Cento 1.4 with Hardware Flow Offload

This is to announce the new 1.4 stable release of nProbe cento. The most important feature that comes with this new version is definitely the support for hardware flow offloading as well as various bug fixing and improved netflow template definition. We recently discussed the benefits of hardware flow offloading in another blog post. Hardware flow offloading alleviates, to a great extent, the pressure put on the CPU by intensive tasks such as classification (associating single packets to flows for accounting and deep packet inspection). Basically, hardware flow offloading means that …
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Stream That Flow: How to Publish nProbe/Cento Flows in a Kafka Cluster

Apache Kafka can be used across an organization to collect data from multiple sources and make them available in standard format to multiple consumers, including Hadoop, Apache HBase, and Apache Solr. nProbe — and it’s ultra-high-speed sibling nProbe cento — integration with the Kafka messaging system makes them good candidates source of network data. The delivery of network data to a redundant, scalable, and fault-tolerant messaging system such as Kafka enables companies to protect their data even in-flight, that is, when the consolidation in a database has still to occur. An impatient reader who is eager to use Cento for …