FLOW-EXPORT(1)

NAME
flow-export - Export flow-tools files into other NetFlow packages.

SYNOPSIS

flow-export [ -h ] [ -d debug_level ] [ -f format ] [ -m mask_fields ] [ -u user:password:host:port:name:table ]

DESCRIPTION

The flow-export utility will convert flow-tools flow files to ASCII CSV, cflowd, pcap, wire, mySQL, and PGSQL format.

OPTIONS

-d debug_level
    Enable debugging.

-f format
    Export format. Supported formats are: 0 cflowd 1 pcap 2 ASCII CSV 3 MySQL 4 wire 5 PGSQL

-h  Display help.

-m mask_fields
    Select fields for MySQL, PostgresSQL, cflowd, and ASCII formats. The mask_fields is built from a bitwise OR of the following:

        UNIX_SECS       0x0000000000000001LL
        UNIX_NSECS      0x0000000000000002LL
        SYSUPTIME       0x0000000000000004LL
        EXADDR          0x0000000000000008LL

        DFLOWS          0x0000000000000010LL
        DPKTS           0x0000000000000020LL
        DOCTETS         0x0000000000000040LL
        FIRST           0x0000000000000080LL

        LAST            0x0000000000000100LL
        ENGINE_TYPE     0x0000000000000200LL
        ENGINE_ID       0x0000000000000400LL

        SRCADDR         0x0000000000001000LL
        DSTADDR         0x0000000000002000LL
        SRC_PREFIX      0x0000000000004000LL
        DST_PREFIX      0x0000000000008000LL
        NEXTHOP         0x0000000000010000LL
        INPUT           0x0000000000020000LL
        OUTPUT          0x0000000000040000LL
        SRCPORT         0x0000000000080000LL

        DSTPORT         0x0000000000100000LL
        PROT            0x0000000000200000LL
        TOS             0x0000000000400000LL
        TCP_FLAGS       0x0000000000800000LL

        SRC_MASK        0x0000000001000000LL
        DST_MASK        0x0000000002000000LL
        SRC_AS          0x0000000004000000LL
        DST_AS          0x0000000008000000LL

        IN_ENCAPS       0x0000000010000000LL
        OUT_ENCAPS      0x0000000020000000LL
        PEER_NEXTHOP    0x0000000040000000LL
        ROUTER_SC       0x0000000080000000LL
        EXTRA_PKTS      0x0000000100000000LL
        MARKED_TOS      0x0000000200000000LL

    When exporting to cflowd format the mask_fields field is the cflowd mask which is defined as the following:

        ROUTERMASK         0x00000001
        SRCIPADDRMASK      0x00000002
        DSTIPADDRMASK      0x00000004
        INPUTIFINDEXMASK   0x00000008
        OUTPUTIFINDEXMASK  0x00000010
        SRCPORTMASK        0x00000020
        DSTPORTMASK        0x00000040
        PKTSMASK           0x00000080
        BYTESMASK          0x00000100
        IPNEXTHOPMASK      0x00000200
        STARTTIMEMASK      0x00000400
        ENDTIMEMASK        0x00000800
        PROTOCOLMASK       0x00001000
        TOSMASK            0x00002000
        SRCASMASK          0x00004000
        DSTASMASK          0x00008000
        SRCMASKLENMASK     0x00010000
        DSTMASKLENMASK     0x00020000
        TCPFLAGSMASK       0x00040000
        INPUTENCAPMASK     0x00080000
        OUTPUTENCAPMASK    0x00100000
        PEERNEXTHOPMASK    0x00200000
        ENGINETYPEMASK     0x00400000
        ENGINEIDMASK       0x00800000

        INDEX_V1_MASK      0x00043FFF
        INDEX_V5_MASK      0x00C7FFFF
        INDEX_V6_MASK      0x00FFFFFF
        INDEX_V7_MASK      0x00C7FFFF
        INDEX_V8_1_MASK    0x00C0CD99
        INDEX_V8_2_MASK    0x00C00DE1
        INDEX_V8_3_MASK    0x00C14D8B
        INDEX_V8_4_MASK    0x00C28D95
        INDEX_V8_5_MASK    0x00C3CD9F

    The default value is all fields applicable to the the flow file, or the cflowd INDEX mask applicabable to the export format.

-u user:password:host:port:name:table
    Configure MySQL or PostgresSQL Access.

EXAMPLES

Convert the flow-tools file flows to the cflowd file flows.cflowd. Include all fields.

flow-export -f0 < flows > flows.cflowd

EXAMPLES

Convert the flow-tools file flows to the ASCII. Include the SRCADDR and DSTADDR fields.

flow-export -f2 -m0x3000 < flows > flows.ascii

EXAMPLES

Export the flow-tools file flows to an MySQL Database. Include only SRCADDR, DSTADDR and DOCTETS.

flow-export -f3 -mSRCADDR,DSTADDR,DOCTETS -u "user:password:host:port:name:table" < flows

BUGS

The pcap format is a hack.

AUTHOR

Mark Fullmer <maf@splintered.net>

Database Support: William Emmanuel Yu <wyu@ateno.edu>

SEE ALSO

flow-tools(1)