Hi Will, Looks interesting! We accomplished this by using Kafka, but I can see where having a json-via-udp might be useful as something more lightweight.
Aaron On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 7:59 PM Will Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello great community! > > First, I wanted to say that I love the pmacct software -- it's been a > huge boon to our research lab. Thank you all for developing and > contributing! > > After some usage of the tool, we found that we needed some extra > functionality that I couldn't find in the included plugins. Namely, we > needed to send json-formatted output over UDP to a server that would > perform further processing on the data. I hope that I didn't miss an > existing plugin to perform such work! > > Finding none, I decided to implement a plugin to do just that. I named > it jsonudp. I implemented it according to the directions in all the > document (ie, copy existing plugins!). I relied heavily on the > print_plugin and coded up something that works. I attempted to follow > the existing code style and meet the project's standards. > > I submitted a pull request for the code to the project's repository on > github. I'd love to hear feedback on the code and what you think I can > improve if you think that it's a feature worth having in the main > repository. If you don't think it's worthwhile, I'd love to hear that > too! > > In any event, thank you for building and maintaining such a great tool. > > Will > > _______________________________________________ > pmacct-discussion mailing list > http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists > -- *Aaron Finney*Infrastructure Engineering | OpenX 888 East Walnut Street, 2nd Floor | Pasadena, CA 91101 o: +1 (626) 466-1141 x6035 | [email protected]
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