Thank you!

ProQueSys and Dartware traveled to Austin, TX, this week to showcase our tech. It was great meeting you all, and many of you were interested in evaluating Flows and asked us for evaluation copies. This page will help you get started.

InterMapper and Flows

The first step is to get up and running with InterMapper. Click here to start a free trial of InterMapper. Install it and run it for the first time.

Flows is included with the InterMapper trial, so there's nothing left to download or install. Open InterMapper, right-click on any map element, and select "Flows Window" to launch the Flows extension.

No Flows? Oh noes!

Chances are, the first thing you'll see is something like this:

noflows

Assuming you're trying this at home, the problem most likely has less to do with your firewall and more to do with that fact that you probably don't have a device that exports NetFlow!

Download our (also free) Flow Exporter here.

Flow Exporter Usage

Windows

Install Winpcap (link) if you haven't got it already, then run Flow Exporter's setup. If you have more than one network interface, set it to listen to whichever one you want to monitor, and leave the export defaults alone, which will set it to export to localhost port 2055.

Now your Flows window will have an new exporter and some flow records to explore.

Mac/*nix

Who needs installers? Download the binary, and run it from the command line as per the usage instructions.

Cheat sheet: This is most likely the command line you want.

./flowexport -d -i bge0 -nf9 127.0.0.1

It'll start Flow Exporter in non-daemonized mode, listening on interface bge0, and exporting NetFlow v9 packets right back to localhost.