Information about the package, flow-tools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The flow-tools package is designed for, Tool set for working with NetFlow data.
Package Name:
flow-tools
Summary:
Tool set for working with NetFlow data
Description:
Flow-tools is library and a collection of programs used to collect, send, process, and generate reports from NetFlow data. The tools can be used together on a single server or distributed to multiple servers for large deployments. The flow-toools library provides an API for development of custom applications for NetFlow export versions 1,5,6 and the 14 currently defined version 8 subversions. A Perl and Python interface have been contributed and are included in the distribution.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.68.5.1
Release:
1.el6
Size:
503 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the flow-tools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install flow-tools
This command will install flow-tools on the server.
yum remove flow-tools
This command will un-install flow-tools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove flow-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove flow-tools
This command will un-install flow-tools on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove flow-tools when using the -y flag.
yum update flow-tools
This command will update flow-tools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove flow-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update flow-tools
This command will update flow-tools to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove flow-tools when using the -y flag.
yum info flow-tools
This command will show you core information about the flow-tools package.
yum deplist flow-tools
This command will show you the dependencies for flow-tools. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update flow-tools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on flow-tools. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.