Hi Pavel,

You are right adding outputs is not a huge deal: it's always some work
to do but not huge deal. There are two aspects to it: 1) what you code,
you should maintain. This advocates against dispersion, ie. add as many
outputs as possible, and in favor of focus on a kind of right amount.
Work against use-cases and don't cover an already covered use-case in
multiple ways, if not for a good rason; 2) priorities: pmacct is by now
a sizeable piece of software and growing in different directives (ie.
inputs, correlation of inputs, outputs, etc.) and each of these needs
some attention/time spent. This advocates in favor of, and links well
with #1 above, making critical mass before adding a feature. In this
sense, for example, if i see the ongoing ES thread on this mailing-list
that's where i'd spend some time on next in terms of outputs. 

Hope this clarifies. Needless to say contributions (even better those
that are [even kind of, best effort] supported over time) are always
welcome.

Cheers,
Paolo

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Pavel Dimow wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> thank you for your answer. Now, I completely understand you, but I am
> curios to know why's that? I am not a programmer but from my POV it's is
> fairly easy to add support for network or syslog output? Once again, I am
> just curious to know nothing else.. :)
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Paolo Lucente <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Pavel,
> >
> > As you say streaming csv over the network is not supported - and there
> > are no plans around it. Two alternatives are:
> >
> > * use AMQP queue(s) to travel JSON objects around the network, see 'amqp'
> >   plugin. This requires setup of a RabbitMQ message exchange.
> > * use the 'tee' plugin to replicate the NEL from your router to all the
> >   nodes. Then on each of the nodes, you install nfacctd with the 'print'
> >   to get the csv output.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Paolo
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:34:29AM +0100, Pavel Dimow wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am using nfacctd to capture NEL from Cisco ASR1000 router. Now, I would
> > > like to export raw csv to other host over the network. Neither of the
> > > methods currently support for output are sufficient, so I wanted to ask
> > is
> > > there any plans to add feature to write plain csv over tcp/udp sockets to
> > > another host?
> >
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