Where can I see the syslog files?
It's not netflow v9, these are older routers


-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Weinhold [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Fri 4/17/2009 9:53 PM
To: Schultz, Brian
Subject: Re: [Flow-tools] Empty flow files
 
What does syslog say? flow-tools does a good job of logging errors.

Could the netflow format be v9 ? flow-tools won't understand it.

-Craig


On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Schultz, Brian wrote:

> I?ve been trying to get flow-tools to work for the past couple of days but I 
> all the flow files seem to be empty. I was using ntop for a little while to 
> test out flow reporting (and it worked) but I think I?m going to move over to 
> Cacti so I can get netflow and snmp all in one place. I?m running this on 
> Ubuntu btw. Any ideas on what I can do?
> 
> There aren?t any firewall rules to prevent anything
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
> 
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
> 
> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
> 
> I can see all of the incoming flows
> tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
> listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
> 15:49:23.288138 IP 192.168.1.6.49866 > 172.19.10.23.2058: UDP, length 1464
> 15:49:34.283227 IP 192.168.1.6.49866 > 172.19.10.23.2058: UDP, length 936
> 15:49:48.290208 IP 192.168.1.6.49866 > 172.19.10.23.2058: UDP, length 1464
> 15:49:55.287958 IP 192.168.1.6.49866 > 172.19.10.23.2058: UDP, length 1464
> 15:50:02.288658 IP 192.168.1.6.49866 > 172.19.10.23.2058: UDP, length 1464
> 15:50:03.288547 IP 192.168.1.6.49866 > 172.19.10.23.2058: UDP, length 1464
> 15:50:04.289581 IP 192.168.1.6.49866 > 172.19.10.23.2058: UDP, length 1464
> 15:50:07.293188 IP 192.168.1.6.49866 > 172.19.10.23.2058: UDP, length 1464
> 15:50:08.325804 IP 192.168.1.6.49866 > 172.19.10.23.2058: UDP, length 1464
> 
> I start up flow-capture
> sudo flow-capture -V5 -d7 -E5M -S1 -w /var/flow/ams 0/0/2058
> 
> I can see that the port is up but it?s not in the listening state if that 
> makes a difference
> Active Internet connections (only servers)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State     
>   PID/Program name
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:3306          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN    
>   4400/mysqld
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN    
>   4579/apache2
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN    
>   4887/sshd
> tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN    
>   4887/sshd
> udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:2058            0.0.0.0:*                         
>   5131/flow-capture
> udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:161           0.0.0.0:*                         
>   4500/snmpd
> udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:68              0.0.0.0:*                         
>   3988/dhclient3
> Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
> Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node   PID/Program name   
>  Path
> unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     13342    4400/mysqld        
>  /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
> unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     13222    4308/dbus-daemon   
>  /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
> 
> I see all of the flow files being created
> Cacti:/var/flow/ams/2009/2009-04/2009-04-17$ ls -l
> total 32
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 2009-04-17 15:30 ft-v05.2009-04-17.152325-0400
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 2009-04-17 15:44 ft-v05.2009-04-17.153001-0400
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 2009-04-17 15:53 ft-v05.2009-04-17.155206-0400
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 2009-04-17 16:00 ft-v05.2009-04-17.155424-0400
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 2009-04-17 16:01 ft-v05.2009-04-17.160001-0400
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 2009-04-17 16:15 ft-v05.2009-04-17.160344-0400
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 2009-04-17 16:30 ft-v05.2009-04-17.161501-0400
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 2009-04-17 16:30 tmp-v05.2009-04-17.163001-0400
> 
> But there?s nothing in them
> flow-print < ft-v05.2009-04-17.152325-0400
> srcIP            dstIP            prot  srcPort  dstPort  octets      packets
> 
> not sure what this means but it scrolls by in the message log
> Cacti:~$ tail /var/log/messages
> Apr 17 16:03:52 Cacti flow-capture[5659]: remove/1 0 files
> Apr 17 16:03:52 Cacti flow-capture[5659]: remove/2 0 files
> Apr 17 16:03:53 Cacti flow-capture[5659]: remove/1 0 files
> Apr 17 16:03:53 Cacti flow-capture[5659]: remove/2 0 files
> Apr 17 16:03:54 Cacti flow-capture[5659]: remove/1 0 files
> Apr 17 16:03:54 Cacti flow-capture[5659]: remove/2 0 files
> Apr 17 16:03:55 Cacti flow-capture[5659]: remove/1 0 files
> Apr 17 16:03:55 Cacti flow-capture[5659]: remove/2 0 files
> Apr 17 16:03:56 Cacti flow-capture[5659]: remove/1 0 files
> Apr 17 16:03:56 Cacti flow-capture[5659]: remove/2 0 files
> 
> I am running the NIC in promiscuous mode because I can?t change the settings 
> on the routers just yet but they?re pointed at another VM on my machine. 
> Would this not work because it?s not being pointed at flow-tools? Ok well I 
> just ran it on the machine that all the flows are pointed to and it?s not 
> creating the flow files
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0c:29:72:d8:d9
>           inet addr:172.19.10.24  Bcast:172.19.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe72:d8d9/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:22694 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:1597 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:6293072 (6.2 MB)  TX bytes:201679 (201.6 KB)
>           Interrupt:19 Base address:0x2000
> 


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