RASORT(1) General Commands Manual RASORT(1)NAME
rasort - sort argus(8) data file.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2000-2003 QoSient. All rights reserved.
SYNOPSIS
rasort [[-M sortmode] [sortmode] ...] [raoptions]
DESCRIPTION
Rasort reads argus data from an argus-data source, sorts the records based on the criteria specified on the command line, and outputs a
valid argus-stream.
OPTIONS
Rasort, 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. rasort(1) specific options are:
-M sortmode Supported sortmodes are:
time record start time <default>
startime record start time <default>
lasttime record last time.
trans aggregation record count.
dur record total duration.
avgdur record average duration.
saddr source IP addr.
daddr destination IP addr.
proto transaction protocol.
sport source port number.
dport destination port number.
stos source TOS byte value.
dtos destination TOS byte value.
sttl src -> dst TTL value.
dttl dst -> src TTL value.
bytes total transaction bytes.
sbytes src -> dst transaction bytes.
dbytes dst -> src transaction bytes.
pkts total transaction packet count.
spkts src -> dst packet count.
dpkts dst -> src packet count.
load bits per second.
loss pkts retransmitted or dropped.
rate pkts per second.
tranref argus transaction reference number.
seq argus sequence number.
srcid argus source identifier.
INVOCATION
A sample invocation of rasort(1). This call reads argus(8) data from inputfile and sorts the IP protocol based argus(8) data, first by the
destination IP address, then by the service (destination) port number and then by the source IP address, and writes the results to stdout.
For most services, this arranges argus(8) formatted data by server, service, and then by client.
rasort -r inputfile -M daddr dport saddr - ip
SEE ALSO ra(1), rarc(5), argus(8), tcpdump(1)FILES AUTHORS
Carter Bullard (carter@qosient.com).
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ARGUS(8) System Manager's Manual ARGUS(8)NAME
argus - audit record generation and utilization system
SYNOPSIS
argus [ options ] [ filter expression ]
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2000-2004 QoSient, LLC All rights reserved.
DESCRIPTION
Argus is an IP transaction auditing tool that categorizes IP packets which match the boolean expression into a protocol-specific network
transaction model. Argus reports on the transactions that it discovers, as they occur.
Designed to run as a daemon, argus generally reads packets directly from a network interface, and writes the transaction status information
to a log file or open socket connected to an argus client (such as ra(1)). Argus can also read packet information from tcpdump(1) ,
snoop(1) or NLANR's Moat Time Sequence Header raw packet files. Argus can also be configured to write its transaction logs to stdout.
Argus provides access control for its socket connection facility using tcp_wrapper technology. Please refer to the tcp_wrapper distribu-
tion for a complete description.
OPTIONS -b Dump the compiled packet-matching code to stdout and stop. This is used to debug filter expressions.
-B Only bind to the specified IP address (remote access must be enabled by a non-zero port).
-c Generate system pid file. This will cause argus to create a pid file that can be used to control the number of argi running on a sys-
tem. The default pid file directory is /var/run, and $ARGUSHOME, when the OS does not suppor /var/run.
-d Run argus as a daemon. This will cause argus to do the things that Unix daemons do and return, if there were no errors, with argus
running as a detached process.
-D <level> Print debug messages to stderr. The higher the <level> the more information printed. Acceptable levels are 1-8.
-e <value> Specify the source identifier for this argus. Acceptable values are numbers, hostnames or ip address.
-h Print an explanation of all the arguments.
-F Use conffile as a source of configuration information. Options set in this file override any other specification, and so this is the
last word on option values.
-I <number> Specify the <number> of instances that are concurrently allowed. The default is 1. This is impacts the pid file strategy
for argus.
-i <interface> Specify the physical network <interface> to be audited. The default is the first network interface that is up and run-
ning.
-J Generate packet peformance data in each audit record.
-M <secs> Specify the interval in <secs> of argus status records. These records are used to report the internal status of argus itself.
The default is 300 seconds.
-m Don't provide MAC addresses information in argus records.
-n <directory> Specify the pid file directory. This overrides the default directory location, which is /var/run, or $ARGUSHOME if
/var/run is not available. This switch implies the -c switch.
-O Turn off Berkeley Packet Filter optimizer. No reason to do this unless you think the optimizer generates bad code.
-p Do not set the physical network interface in promiscuous mode. If the interface is already in promiscuous mode, this option may have
no effect. Do this to audit only the traffic coming to and from the system argus is running on.
-P <portnum> Specifies the <portnum> for remote client connection. The default is to not support remote access. Setting the value to
zero (0) will forceably turn off the facility.
-r Read from tcpdump(1) , snoop(1) or NLANR's Moat Time Sequence Header (tsh) packet capture files. If the packet capture file is a tsh
format file, then the -t option must also be used. Argus will read from only one input packet file at a time. If the -r option is
specified, argus will not put down a listen(2) to support remote access.
-R Generate argus records such that response times can be derived from transaction data.
-S <secs> Specify the status reporting interval in <secs> for all traffic flows.
-t Indicate that the expected packet capture input file is a NLANR's Moat Time Sequence Header (tsh) packet capture file.
-U Specify the number of user bytes to capture.
-w <file ["filter"] Write transaction status records to output-file. An output-file of '-' directs argus to write the resulting argus-
file output to stdout.
-X Clear existing argus configuration. This removes any initialization done prior to encountering this flag. Allows you to eliminate
the effects of the /etc/argus.conf file, or any argus.conf files that may have been loaded.
expression
This tcpdump(1) expression specifies which transactions will be selected. If no expression is given, all transactions are selected.
Otherwise, only transactions for which expression is `true' will be dumped. For a complete expression format description, please
refer to the tcpdump(1) man page.
SIGNALS
Argus catches a number of signal(3) events. The three signals SIGHUP, SIGINT, and SIGTERM cause argus to exit, writing TIMEDOUT status
records for all currently active transactions. The signal SIGUSR1 will turn on debug reporting, and subsequent SIGUSR1 signals, will
increment the debug-level. The signal SIGUSR2 will cause argus to turn off all debug reporting.
ENVIRONMENT
$ARGUSHOME - Argus Root directory
FILES
/etc/argus.conf - argus daemon configuration file
/var/run/argus_os.pid - default PID file nameing convention
EXAMPLES
Run argus as a daemon, writing all its transaction status reports to output-file. This is the typical mode.
argus -d -e `hostname` -w output-file
If ICMP traffic is not of interest to you, you can filter out ICMP packets on input.
argus -w output-file - ip and not icmp
Argus supports both input filtering and output filtering, and argus supports multiple output streams, each with their own independant fil-
ters.
If you are interested in tracking IP traffic only (input filter) and want to report ICMP traffic in one output file, and all other IP traf-
fic in another file.
argus -w outfile1 "icmp" -w outfile2 "not icmp" - ip
Audit the network activity that is flowing between the two gateway routers, whose ethernet addresses are 00:08:03:2D:42:01 and
00:00:0C:18:29:F1. Without specifying an output-file, it is assumed that the transaction status reports will be written to a remote
client. In this case we have changed the port that the remote client will use to port 430/tcp.
argus -P 430 ether host (0:8:3:2d:42:1 and 0:0:c:18:29:f1) &
Audit each individual ICMP ECHO transaction. You would do this gather Round Trip Time data within your network. Write the output to out-
put-file.
argus -R -w output-file "echo" - icmp
Audit all NFS transactions involving the server fileserver and increase the reporting interval to 3600 seconds (to provide high data reduc-
tion). Write the output to output-file.
argus -S 3600 -w output-file udp and port 2049 &
AUTHORS
Carter Bullard (carter@qosient.com)
SEE ALSO argus.conf(5), hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5), tcpd(8), tcpdump(1)
10 November 2000 ARGUS(8)