RASTRIP(1)

NAME
rastrip - strip argus(8) data file.

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

DESCRIPTION

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.

OPTIONS
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.

INVOCATION
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

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2000-2024 QoSient. All rights reserved.

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

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AUTHORS
Carter Bullard (carter@qosient.com).

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