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There are a number of settings that are important that you can find under
Console > Configuration > Settings > Flowview.

The minimum version of Cacti required for this plugin will be Cacti 1.2.27.
However, you will have to install the patch to Cacti's database API in this
commit: c11405e584c012f675fb420acf78bcecc7d02d9f.

If you are running an older version of Cacti, you may run Flowview, but you
will not be able to leverage the MaxScale Shard Query feature.
The minimum version of Cacti required for this plugin is Cacti 1.2.29.

If you are wanting to take advantage of the Shard Query implementation of
Flowview, you must setup your Database so that it replicates itself to
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The flow-capture script will receive the flow data, and attempt to resolve the
domain names of the flows. In the case that an IP Address does not properly
resolve to a domain, Cacti automatically queries IANA to find the owner and
assigned as 'assumed' domain for those flows. If your Cacti server can not
reach IANA, then those IP's will simply not be resolved.
resolve to a domain, Cacti automatically queries ARIN's whois service to find
the owner and assigned as 'assumed' domain for those flows. If your Cacti
server can not reach ARIN, then those IP's will simply not be resolved.

## Upgrading from Prior Versions

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The Parallel Query caches the result of each fully covered partition, so
reports over older data open quickly once a partition has been scanned. To
build that cache ahead of time, run the following from the plugin's `cli`
build that cache ahead of time, run the following from the plugin's
directory with the Parallel Query enabled (Max Concurrent Threads of 2 or
more under the FlowView Settings):

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# Features

There are two types of collectors for flowview, one requires only Cacti and the
second requires flow-tools binary package.
The flowview collector is flow_collector.php, which runs under Cacti's PHP and
does not require the flow-tools binary package.

Before you start any of the flow-capture services, ensure you have added at
least on listener otherwise the flow capture service will not start. Also
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