Hi Emanuel,

Apologies i did not get you wanted and ID for the collector. The
simplest way of achieving that is 'post_tag' as you just have to supply
a number as ID; pre_tag_map expects a map and may be better to be
reserved for more complex use-cases.

Paolo

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 03:35:52PM -0400, Emanuel dos Reis Rodrigues wrote:
> Thank you for your help. Appreciate it !
> 
> See, I did use it for testing after I sent this email. However, the ip
> showed there was the IP from my nfacctd machine, the collector itself. Not
> the exporter.
> 
> peer_src_ip                      : IP address or identificator of telemetry
> exporting device
> 
> In fact, it may have todo with the fact I currently have an SSH tunnel with
> socat with the remote machine in order to collect the data. This may be the
> reason why which is definitively not a ordinary condition. :)
> 
> I am wondering if I could use this one to include a different tag on it
> process/collector, but have not yet figured out how. Any thoughts ?
> 
> label                            : String label, ie. as result of
> pre_tag_map evaluation
> 
> 
> Thank you again.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:07 AM Paolo Lucente <pa...@pmacct.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi Emanuel,
> >
> > I think you are looking for (i admit, non-intuitive) 'peer_src_ip'
> > primitive:
> >
> > $ nfacctd -a | grep peer_src_ip
> > peer_src_ip                      : IP address or identificator of
> > telemetry exporting device
> >
> > Without the grep you can see all supported primitives by the nfacctd
> > release you are using along with a text explanation.
> >
> > Paolo
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 06:55:26PM -0400, Emanuel dos Reis Rodrigues wrote:
> > > Hello guys,
> > >
> > > I implemented nfacctd acting as a Netflow collector using pmacct. It is
> > > working perfectly and writing the flows to a Kafka topic which I have an
> > > application processing it.
> > >
> > > Following is my configuration:
> > >
> > > kafka_topic: netflow
> > > kafka_broker_host: Kafka-host
> > > kafka_broker_port: 9092
> > > kafka_refresh_time: 1
> > > daemonize: true
> > > plugins: kafka
> > > pcap_interface: enp0s8
> > > nfacctd_ip: 192.168.1.100
> > > nfacctd_port: 9995
> > > aggregate: src_host, dst_host, timestamp_start, timestamp_end, src_port,
> > > dst_port, proto
> > >
> > > Currently, there is only one Netflow exporter sending data to this
> > > demon and I would like to add another exporter. The problem is that I am
> > > not finding a way to differentiate the flows coming from different
> > > exporters.
> > >
> > > Let's say I have the exporter A currently sending data to nfacctd running
> > > at port 9995 and the data is being written to Kafka topic Netflow.
> > >
> > > Now I want a new exporter B to start sending data to nfacctd port 9996
> > which
> > > will be running as a separate demon ( just because I though so, not sure
> > > yet if it is a necessary approach)  and writing the data to the
> > > same Netflow topic in Kafka.
> > >
> > > When the data comes from Kafka to my application, I cannot tell from
> > > which exporter the data came from. I would need some sort of
> > identification
> > > in order to make this differentiation. It is important for me, because my
> > > application may treat differently Netflow traffic coming from these
> > > two Netflow exporters.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Emanuel
> >
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