# Add a Flow Endpoints 1\. Go to **Listeners > Flow Endpoints** then click the **Add (+)** button located in the upper right corner.
2\. You will get the fields as follows.
*Refer to the following table to understand the fields in the above screen.*
FieldsDescription
Flow Name A label or name that is assigned to a flow.
Flow Type

To choose a flow type:

· Sflow: Sampling-based protocol

· Netflow V5: All flow-based protocol

· Netflow V9 / IPFIX: All flow-based protocol with more extensible

TriggerYou may want to assign the servers to a custom Trigger if target server is in an Isolated network or if you want to setup a scalable infrastructure. You will only see available Triggers in this field.
IP Address The numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network is called an "IP address." An IP address is typically represented in the format XXX.XXX.XXX.XX, where each "XXX" is a number ranging from 0 to 255, and the "XX" is a similar two-digit number. IP addresses are used to uniquely identify and locate devices on a network.
Port Number A specific endpoint for data exchange between two devices or applications within a network.
Status

To choose a server status such as:

· Active: Enables monitoring for server

· Maintenance: Enables maintenance mode for server and disables all notifications

· Reconnect: Restarts all collectors for server

· Disabled: Disables monitoring for server

Debug

To choose debug such as:

· Off

· On: Collects debug logs for Inventory and Monitoring Collector

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