On Aug 17, "Ross Wimmersberger" wrote:

> I am curious to find out what you do with your netflow reporting system?
> We were hoping to get a little more detail so if HTTP is spiking, find
> out why, so I might be looking into the other reporting engine, but I am
> curious to see what and how you all use it on a daily basis?

We use netflow to help diagnose what ips and/or ports are involved when
there are network problems.  We also use it to generate text-based
departmental and campus-wide usage data.

http://www.net.berkeley.edu/flow

The script that makes these:

http://lusArs.net/~mhunter/flow-pairs/flow-pairs-0.90.tar.gz

One thing I also did that was cool was make a file hierarchy that breaks 
flows down as follows:

ls /data/netflow.cron

0000
0015
0030
0045
0100
0115
...
2330
2345

ls /data/netflow.cron/0000
128-32-1-0
128-32-2-0
128-32-3-0
128-32-3-128
128-32-4-0
...
128-32-255-0

So if you're looking to find out what the heck happened at 2:30 yesterday
on the 123 subnet, you can just look at /data/netflow.cron/1430/128-32-123-0
instead of having to "grep" out all the unwanted flows.  You can also do
ls -l | sort -n +4 to find out quickly if there's been badness on a
subnet.

I'm still working (every once in a while) on a whiz-bang graphing program.
I got stuck trying to install flow-scan and haven't gotten back to it yet.

Mike
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