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NAME
ratrace - trace the route to remote addresses seen in argus(8) data streams / files.
SYNOPSIS
ratrace [-f conf] [-m agr(s)] [-M mode(s)] [-P procnum] [raoptions] [-- filter-expression]
DESCRIPTION
Ratrace reads argus data from an argus-data source, and traces the path to the IP addresses contained in
the flow data.
This tool is primarily used to support detailed network awareness, visibility and location of IP
addresses encountered.
Please see ratrace.5 for detailed information regarding ratrace configuration.
OPTIONS
Ratrace, like all ra based clients, supports a number of ra options including filtering of input argus
records through a terminating filter expression, and the ability to specify the output style, format and
contents for printing data. See ra(1) for a complete description of ra options. ratrace(1) specific
options are:
-m aggregation object
Supported aggregation objects are:
none do not merge records (results in no aggregation).
all merge all records into a single record.
srcid argus source identifier.
smac source mac(ether) addr.
dmac destination mac(ether) addr.
soui oui portion of the source mac(ether) addr.
doui oui portion of the destination mac(ether) addr.
smpls source mpls label.
dmpls destination label addr.
svlan source vlan label.
dvlan destination vlan addr.
saddr/[l|m] source IP addr/[cidr len | m.a.s.k].
daddr/[l|m] destination IP addr/[cidr len | m.a.s.k].
matrix/l sorted src and dst IP addr/cidr len.
proto transaction protocol.
sport source port number. Implies use of 'proto'.
dport destination port number. Implies use of 'proto'.
stos source TOS byte value.
dtos destination TOS byte value.
sttl src -> dst TTL value.
dttl dst -> src TTL value.
stcpb src -> dst TCP base sequence number.
dtcpb dst -> src TCP base sequence number.
inode[/l|m]] intermediate node IP addr/[cidr len | m.a.s.k], source of ICMP mapped events.
sco source ARIN country code, if present.
dco destination ARIN country code, if present.
sas source node origin AS number, if available.
das destination node origin AS number, if available.
ias intermediate node origin AS number, if available.
-M modes
Supported modes are:
correct Attempt to correct the direction of flows by also searching the reverse flow key,
if a match isn't found in the cache. This mode is on by default when using the
default full 5-tuple flow key definitions.
nocorrect Turn off flow correction for direction. This mode is used by default if the flow
key has been changed.
norep Do not generate an aggregate statistic for each flow. This is used primarily when
the output represents a single object. Primarily used when merging status records
to generate single flows that represent single transactions.
rmon Generate data suitable for producing RMON types of metrics.
ind Process each input file independantly, so that after the end of each inputfile,
ratrace flushes its output.
replace Replace each inputfile contents, with the aggregated output. The initial file
compression status is maintained
-P<procnum>
Specify the number of processors to use for aggregation. Default is 1.
-V Verbose operation, printing a line of output for each input file processed. Very useful when using
the ra() -R option.
INVOCATION
A sample invocation of ratrace(1). This call reads argus(8) data from inputfile and aggregates the TCP
protocol based argus(8) data. By default, ratrace(1) merges using the standard 5-tuple flow key. This
method is used to merge multiple status records into a single flow record per transaction.
% ra -r argus.tcp.2012.02.13.12.20.00
StartTime Dur Trans Flgs Proto SrcAddr Sport Dir DstAddr Dport TotPkts State
12:23:07.268 0.997 1 e i tcp 192.168.0.68.59016 -> 208.59.201.75.http 298 CON
12:23:08.294 1.000 1 e tcp 192.168.0.68.59016 -> 208.59.201.75.http 111 CON
12:23:09.294 0.991 1 e d tcp 192.168.0.68.59016 -> 208.59.201.75.http 637 CON
12:23:10.331 0.330 1 e tcp 192.168.0.68.59016 -> 208.59.201.75.http 89 CON
12:23:32.183 0.010 1 e tcp 192.168.0.68.59016 -> 208.59.201.75.http 3 FIN
% ratrace -r argus.tcp.2012.02.13.12.20.00
StartTime Dur Trans Flgs Proto SrcAddr Sport Dir DstAddr Dport TotPkts State
12:23:07.268 24.925 5 e d tcp 192.168.0.68.59016 -> 208.59.201.75.http 1138 FIN
A sample invocation of ratrace(1). This call reads argus(8) data from inputfile and aggregates the TCP
protocol based argus(8) data, based on the source and destination address matrix and the protocol. It
reports the metrics as a percent of the total.
% ratrace -r argus.2012.02.13.17.20.00 -m saddr/16 daddr proto -% \
-s stime dur trans proto saddr dir daddr pkts state - tcp and port https
StartTime Dur pTrans Proto SrcAddr Dir DstAddr pTotPkts State
17:49:54.225 8.101 33.333 tcp 192.168.0.0/16 -> 17.154.66.18 23.372 FIN
17:48:42.607 179.761 13.333 tcp 192.168.0.0/16 -> 17.172.224.25 31.052 FIN
17:50:01.113 0.803 6.667 tcp 192.168.0.0/16 -> 17.250.248.161 5.676 FIN
17:49:54.525 1.153 6.667 tcp 192.168.0.0/16 -> 64.12.173.137 5.509 FIN
17:50:35.411 101.133 26.667 tcp 192.168.0.0/16 -> 184.28.150.87 19.199 RST
17:49:56.061 73.415 6.667 tcp 192.168.0.0/16 -> 205.188.8.47 11.018 RST
17:49:55.677 0.434 6.667 tcp 192.168.0.0/16 -> 205.188.101.10 4.174 FIN
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2000-2024 QoSient. All rights reserved.
SEE ALSO
racluster(5), ra(1), rarc(5), argus(8),
FILES
AUTHORS
Carter Bullard (carter@qosient.com).
BUGS
ratrace 5.0.3 07 October 2023 RATRACE(1)