rastrip - Man Page

rastrip [-M [replace] [+|-]dsr [-M ...]] [raoptions] [-- filter-expression]

Rastrip reads argus data from an argus-data source, strips the records based on the criteria specified on the command line, and outputs a valid argus-stream. This is useful to reduce the size of argus data files. Rastrip always removes argus management transactions, thus having the same effect as a 'not man' filter expression.

Rastrip, like all ra based clients, supports a number of ra options including filtering of input argus records through a terminating filter expression. See ra(1) for a complete description of ra options. rastrip(1) specific options are:

-M [+|-]dsr

Strip specified dsr (data set record).

Supported dsrs are:

flow

flow key data (proto, saddr, sport, dir, daddr, dport)

time

time stamp fields (stime, ltime).

metric

basic ([s|d]bytes, [s|d]pkts, [s|d]rate, [s|d]load)

agr

aggregation stats (trans, avgdur, mindur, maxdur, stdev).

net

network objects (tcp, esp, rtp, icmp data).

vlan

VLAN tag data

mpls

MPLS label data

jitter

Jitter data ([s|d]jit, [s|d]intpkt)

ipattr

IP attributes ([s|d]ipid, [s|d]tos, [s|d]dsb, [s|d]ttl)

suser

src user captured data bytes (suser)

duser

dst captured user data bytes (duser)

mac

MAC addresses (smac, dmac)

icmp

ICMP specific data (icmpmap, inode)

encaps

Flow encapsulation type indications

In the default mode, without the -M option, rastrip removes the following default set of dsrs: encaps, agr, vlan, mpls, mac, icmp, ipattr, jitter, suser, duser

-M replace

Replace the existing file with the newly striped file.

A sample invocation of rastrip(1).  This call reads argus(8) data from inputfile and strips the default dsr set but keeps MAC addresses and writes the result to outputfile:

rastrip -M +mac -r inputfile -w outputfile

This call removes only captured user data and timings and writes the result to stdout:

rastrip -M -suser -M -duser -M -time -r inputfile

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ra(1), rarc(5), argus(8),

Carter Bullard (carter@qosient.com).