Phil, I think that if you read up on the differences between Netflow v9 and 
NSEL (what Cisco ASA uses) the issues will become apparent.
For now you must either use nfdump-1.5.7-nsel or wait until NSEL support is 
fully fleshed out in a future 1.6.x release.

This link provides some interesting reading and points out the inherent 
differences within NSEL:

http://www.plixer.com/blog/netflow/what-is-nsel-a-deeper-look-part-1/

Further details on the issues with NSEL here:  
http://netflowninjas.typepad.com/blog/2009/05/firewalls-and-netflow-it-could-be-heaven.html

I hope this information helps and I'm sorry there is no immediate solution.  I 
too would love to be able to fully interpret flow data from our ASAs.

Regards,

Bryan VanDivier
Communications Manager
University of North Texas
Data Communications



From: Phil Pierotti [mailto:phil.piero...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 4:32 PM
To: peter.h...@switch.ch
Cc: nfsen-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nfsen-discuss] asa and nfdump 1.6.1.....only seeing flow data.

Ok so obviously I (for one) am confused.

I thought the point of v9 was that the flow-sender defined the templates as 
part of the flow datastream.

So any flow-receiver needs to accept, recognize, and interpret the 
flow-templates from within the flow-datastream itself.

The intention being that any flow-receiver which is "v9 compatible" is *always* 
compatible with whatever is being sent.

.... or am I completely misunderstanding something?

Phil P
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Peter Haag 
<peter.h...@switch.ch<mailto:peter.h...@switch.ch>> wrote:
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Hi all users of CISCO ASA,

On 8/6/10 13:35, Vilberg Eiríksson wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>                 ....i am using nfdump version 1.6.1 and using ASA 5510 to 
> export the netflow traffic.  I am only seeing flow data but no traffic or 
> data.
CISCO ASA is not standard netflow! Although is uses netflow v9 to export 
information, it has it's very own set of very
specific templates. nfdump 1.6.1 does not yet support ASA flows. There is a 
nfdump-1.5.7-nsel version on sourceforge,
with patches form CISCO, to process ASA flows. ASA is subject to be integrated 
into nfdump-1.6.x in upcoming releases.

       - Peter
>
> While looking this up on Mr. google i see that there was a patch for version 
> 1.5.7 to have this working with asa but it also says that it is supposed to 
> be included in version 1.6.
>
> Is there someting else i need to to to have this working with my ASA 5510.  I 
> am pretty sure i have the ASA config correct but maybe there is someting i 
> need to tweak there also
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