Hi Alex,

On 4/23/13 W17 9:45, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Firstly superb piece of software Peter!

Thanks for the flowers :)

> 
> I have two questions:
> 
> Question one:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> I am successfully using nfdump-1.6.9/nfsen-1.3.6p1 on FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE to
> monitor ASAs running Version 8.2(5)33. Things seem to work well, except for 
> the fact
> that "Packets(%)", "pps" and "bpp" are all zero and never increment e.g
> 
>   Top 10 IP Addr ordered by packets:
>   Date first seen          Duration Proto           IP Addr    Flows(%)     
> Packets(%)       Bytes(%)         pps      bps   bpp
>   2013-04-23 17:08:53.859   191.039 any       x.x.x.x       11( 0.0)        
> 0( 0.0)    73797( 0.0)        0     3090     0
>   2013-04-23 17:04:23.717    71.253 any       x.x.x.x        7( 0.0)        
> 0( 0.0)    33930( 0.0)        0     3809     0
>   2013-04-23 17:04:58.374   195.439 any       x.x.x.x        9( 0.0)        
> 0( 0.0)   906003( 0.1)        0    37085     0
>   2013-04-23 17:18:13.639   313.166 any       x.x.x.x       15( 0.1)        
> 0( 0.0)   528703( 0.1)        0    13506     0
>   2013-04-23 17:13:18.240    29.137 any       x.x.x.x        2( 0.0)        
> 0( 0.0)      287( 0.0)        0       78     0
>   2013-04-23 17:11:57.899     0.000 any       x.x.x.x        1( 0.0)        
> 0( 0.0)      203( 0.0)        0        0     0
>   2013-04-23 17:12:04.468   233.405 any       x.x.x.x       14( 0.1)        
> 0( 0.0)   531998( 0.1)        0    18234     0
>   2013-04-23 17:12:34.695    62.923 any       x.x.x.x        3( 0.0)        
> 0( 0.0)   131622( 0.0)        0    16734     0
>   2013-04-23 17:05:26.531   246.503 any       x.x.x.x       21( 0.1)        
> 0( 0.0)     4735( 0.0)        0      153     0
>   2013-04-23 17:08:34.931    64.883 any       x.x.x.x        4( 0.0)        
> 0( 0.0)    56680( 0.0)        0     6988     0
> 
> I was under the impression that the NSEL fork is no longer needed since it 
> has been merged into nfdump-1.6.9 ?

That's correct!

> (The reason I ask this is because I have seen in the archives others with 
> same problem and the solution was the NSEL fork).
> 
> So can anyone suggest how I can troubleshoot the aforementioned issue ?

First of all, it's important to be aware, that CISCO ASA are no flows in the 
term of flows as you are used too. ASA
sends "events" in the format of flows. Depending on the ASA version you are 
running, it contains more or less information.
Some ASA do not send packet information in their events - just bytes. Newer ASA 
can even split in/out. THerefore packet
may be 0. Old 1.5.8-NSEL release could not cope with packets 0 - from the logic 
point of view good old flows always
contain packets :)
1.6.9 can handle events more properly. A 'create' event for example notifies a 
creation of a connecting, which does not
necessarily needs packets to be logged. A 'delete' event may contain packets.
Long story short: It all depends :) Check your raw record ./nfdump -o raw, what 
you really have collected. This shows the
full record with everything included. Furthermore, do not forget to enable all 
those extensions you want to have in your
data. If you are in doubt, test with -Tall and test nfcapd on the command line 
( *no* -D )  ./nfcapd -Tall -E -l  ...


> 
> Question two:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Apparently Cisco wrote and released a plugin called "NSELTracker", however, I 
> cannot see it here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/nfsen-plugins/.
> 
> Is the "NSELTracker" plugin still relevant ? If yes, can someone tell me 
> where to get it from ?

That's not yet ported to 1.6.9, as I had no feedback from people using this. 
Would it be useful to port? What are the
benefits from this plugin?

        - Peter

> 
> Regards
> 
>   -Alex
> 
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