Flowmon probe is an appliance for monitoring and reporting information of IP flows in high-speed computer networks.
Flowmon probe is built upon a pair of programmable network cards, called COMBO, and a host computer with Linux operating system.
The flow monitoring process itself is split between the hardware (acceleration cards) and the application software running on the host computer.
Following the principle of hardware/software codesign, all time-critical tasks are implemented in FPGA chips on acceleration cards while more complex operations are carried out by the application software.
Flowmon probe is able to export aggregated data to external collectors in NetFlow (version 5 and 9) and IPFIX format.