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NAME
rastrip - strip argus(8) data file.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2000-2003 QoSient. All rights reserved.
SYNOPSIS
rastrip [[-M stripfield] [stripfield] ...] [raoptions]
DESCRIPTION
Rastrip reads argus data from an argus-data source, and removes data sections that are specified on the
command line, and outputs a valid argus-stream. If rastrip is run without any stripfield directives,
the default is to strip out all information from the record except the FAR information and TCP specific
information. This default generates an argus-stream that contains the same semantic information that was
present in argus-1.5 data records, and generates the same output from ra().
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 [-|+]stripfield
Supported stripfields are:
far flow descriptors and flow metrics
mac media access control addresses
tcp TCP specific identifiers and metrics, such as base sequence numbers, advertised
window sizes and retransmission statistics.
icmp ICMP specific identifiers and metrics, such as the source address of the ICMP
packet, the declared gateway address and the ICMP types and modes, such as ECHO or
Port Unreachable, along with the port value.
rtp RTP and RTCP specific identifiers and metrics, such as the source stream
identifiers, the last sequence number and stream drop statistics.
igmp IGMP specific identifiers and metrics.
arp IGMP specific identifiers and metrics, such as the MAC address of the responder to
arp requests for a specific address.
frag Fragmentation specific identifiers and metrics, such as the average fragment size,
number of fragments in this fragment, last offset seen in this fragment.
esp ESP specific identifiers and metrics, such as the Security Identifier the last
sequence number seen and drop statistics.
mpls MPLS specific identifiers, such as the last MPLS label seen on this flow.
vlan VLAN specific identifiers, such as the source and destination VLAN identifiers.
flow.
pppoe PPPOE specific identifiers, such as the source and destination SAP identifiers.
agr Aggregation specific metrics, such as the number of records aggregated, the mean
record duration, standard deviations.
jitter Jitter specific metrics, such as the mean interpacket arrival time while the flow
is active, max, min and standard deviation, as well as metrics for while the flow
is idle.
user All user data capture buffers.
srcuser User data capture buffer from the source node.
dstuser User data capture buffer from the destination node.
stime Source jitter information.
dtime Destination jitter information.
INVOCATION
Sample invocations of rastrip(1). The first call reads argus(8) data from inputfile and strips the record, leaving only the FAR data, which contains the flow descriptors and basic metrics, and jitter information. rastrip -r inputfile -M far jitter The next sample invocation of rastrip(1), adds vlan specific information to the default far and tcp information that would normally be retained. rastrip -r inputfile -M +vlan The next sample invocation of rastrip(1), removes only the user data capture buffers from the argus- stream, keep the rest of the data intact. rastrip -r inputfile -M -user
SEE ALSO
ra(1), rarc(5), argus(8), tcpdump(1)
FILES
AUTHORS
Carter Bullard (carter@qosient.com).
BUGS
04 December 2001 RASTRIP(1)