Create flow

To create a new flow, open the Axoflow Console, then complete the following steps:

1. Select Flows.

2. Select Create New Flow.

3. Enter a name for the flow, for example, my-test-flow.

   

4. In the Router Selector field, enter an expression that matches the router(s) you want to apply the flow. To select a specific router, use a name selector, for example, name = my-axorouter-hostname.

   It also makes more complex filtering possible, using the Equals, Contains (partial match), and Match (regular expression match) operators. Note that:

   • To execute the search, click Search, or hit ESC then ENTER.
   • Axoflow Console autocompletes the built-in and custom labels and field names, as well as their most frequent values, but doesn’t autocomplete labels and variables created by data parsing and processing steps.
   • You can use the AND and OR operators to combine expressions, and also parenthesis if needed.

5. Select the Destination where you want to send your data. If you don’t have any destination configured, see Destinations.

   By default, you can select only external destinations. If you want to send data to another AxoRouter, enable the Show all destinations option, and select the connector of the AxoRouter where you want to send the data.

   

6. (Optional) To process the data transferred in the flow, select Add New Processing Step. For details, see Processing steps. For example:

   1. Add a Classify, a Parse, and a Reduce step, in that order, to automatically remove redundant and empty fields from your data.
   2. To select which messages are processed by the flow, add a Select Messages step, and enter a filter into the Query field. For example, to select only the messages received from Fortinet FortiGate firewalls, use the meta.vendor = fortinet AND meta.product = fortigate query.
   3. Save the processing steps.

   

7. Select Create.

8. The new flow appears in the Flows list.