Faddom works as a collector for your network traffic whether it's from on-prem, cloud, or a hybrid environment. For on-prem deployments, Faddom utilises IPFix, Netflow, and sFlow protocols In the cloud, the traffic is collected by enabling traffic logging and providing Faddom with API access to the logs in-situ.
VMware
How to Enable Traffic Collection in VMware - For the initial discovery and traffic collection, you will need enhanced permissions. Once the intial configuration is complete, you can revert to read only. You will need to either enable NetFlow (distributed switches) or deploy sensors (standard switches)
Hyper-V and KVM Based hypervisors
host sFlow. is utilised to provide traffic and performance data in Hyper-V. To configure it in Hyper-V you can follow our guide Hyper-V sFlow Configuration.
For KVM-based hypervisors, you need to follow the host sFlow documentation.
For other KVM based hypervisors, you can download host sFlow and configure it according to the documentation.
AWS
To enable discovery of AWS, Faddom requires read-only credentials to the account with EC2 instances and to S3 where you will need to store the VPC Flow Logs. For full details, you can follow Mapping an AWS Subscription Using Faddom
Azure
For enabling discovery of Azure, Faddom requires read-only credentials to the account with after creating an app registratrionand to S3 where you will need to store the VPC Flow Logs. For full details you can follow Mapping an AWS Subscription Using Faddom
Kubernetes
To discover Kubernetes you need to install host sFlow on the nodes and provide a Kubecfg file. You can see full instructions in How To Integrate My Kubernetes Cluster With Faddom?
Physical Environments
For your physical environments, you need to enable traffic monitoring on your network devices.
In some cases, this is not possible, or there is a standalone machine, in which case you can do discovery through our agent. You can follow Capturing network traffic using agents for instructions
Load Balancers
Faddom will utilise SNMP v2 or v3 to read the configuration of your load balancers. If they support IPfix protocols you can also forward the traffic for a fuller picture to Faddom. You can read about this in How to Set Up a Load Balancer