geoip

GeoIP intermediate plugin

Plugin description

This plugin fills informations about country codes of source and destination address into the data record's metadata structure.

Geolocation

For geolocation, MaxMind GeoIP API and database is used.

Configuration

Default plugin configuration in internalcfg.xml:

<intermediatePlugin>
    <name>geoip</name>
    <file>/usr/share/ipfixcol/plugins/ipfixcol-geoip-inter.so</file>
    <threadName>geoip</threadName>
</intermediatePlugin>

Or as ipfixconf output:

     Plugin type         Name/Format     Process/Thread         File        
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
     intermediate          geoip          geoip        /usr/share/ipfixcol/plugins/ipfixcol-geoip-inter.so

Example startup.xml configuration:

<geoip>
	<path>/path/to/GeoIP.dat</path>
	<path6>/path/to/GeoIPv6.dat</path6>
</geoip>

• path (optional) is a path to IPv4 database file. By default, file from installed GeoIP package is used.
• path6 (optional) is a path to IPv6 database file. By default, GeoIPv6.dat distributed with plugin is used.

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