Netify Agent

Copyright ©2015-2019 eGloo Incorporated (www.egloo.ca)

Network Intelligence - Simplified

The Netify Agent is a deep-packet inspection server. The Agent is built on top of nDPI (formerly OpenDPI) to detect network protocols and applications. Detections can be saved locally, served over a UNIX or TCP socket, and/or "pushed" (via HTTP POSTs) to a remote third-party server. Flow metadata, network statistics, and detection classifications are stored using JSON encoding.

Optionally, the Netify Agent can be coupled with a Netify Cloud subscription for further cloud processing, historical storage, machine-learning analysis, event notifications, device detection/identification, along with the option (on supported platforms) to take an active role in policing/bandwidth-shaping specific network protocols and applications.

Runtime Requirements

Ensure that the nfnetlink and nf_conntrack_netlink kernel modules are loaded.

Build Requirements

Netify requires the following third-party packages:

  • libcurl
  • libjson-c
  • libmnl
  • libnetfilter-conntrack
  • libpcap
  • zlib

Optional:

  • libtcmalloc (gperftools)

Download Source

When cloning the source tree, ensure you use --recursive to include all sub-modules.

Download Packages

Currently you can download binary packages for the following OS distributions:

Developer Documentation

Further developer documentation can be found here.

Configuring/Building From Source

Read the appropriate documentation in the doc directory, prefixed with: BUILD-*

Generally the process is:

# ./autogen.sh
# ./configure
# make

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.