From 4e7fa1b0b8b0e86d7b8483ab3440f3ed14130ba8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Poessinger Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 07:23:20 +0100 Subject: netflow: use asterisk on list --- docs/system/flowaccounting.rst | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/system/flowaccounting.rst') diff --git a/docs/system/flowaccounting.rst b/docs/system/flowaccounting.rst index a3ec5248..0c796f92 100644 --- a/docs/system/flowaccounting.rst +++ b/docs/system/flowaccounting.rst @@ -7,13 +7,11 @@ can determine things such as the source and destination of traffic, class of service, and the causes of congestion. A typical flow monitoring setup (using NetFlow) consists of three main components: -- Flow exporter: aggregates packets into flows and exports flow records towards +* Flow exporter: aggregates packets into flows and exports flow records towards one or more flow collectors - -- Flow collector: responsible for reception, storage and pre-processing of flow +* Flow collector: responsible for reception, storage and pre-processing of flow data received from a flow exporter - -- Analysis application: analyzes received flow data in the context of intrusion +* Analysis application: analyzes received flow data in the context of intrusion detection or traffic profiling, for example For connectionless protocols as like ICMP and UDP, a flow is considered complete -- cgit v1.2.3