RASORT(1)

NAME
rasort - sort argus(8) data file.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2000-2008 QoSient. All rights reserved.

SYNOPSIS
rasort [[-M sortmode] [-m 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 replace
    Replace the existing file with the sorted output.
-m sortmode
    Supported sortmodes are:
    stime
        record start time <default>
    ltime
        record last time.
    trans
        aggregation record count.
    dur record total duration.
    avgdur
        record average duration.
    mindur
        record minimum duration.
    maxdur
        record maximum duration.
    smac
        source MAC addr.
    dmac
        destination MAC addr.
    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.
    sload
        source bits per second.
    dload
        destination bits per second.
    loss
        pkts retransmitted or dropped.
    sloss
        source pkts retransmitted or dropped.
    dloss
        destination pkts retransmitted or dropped.
    ploss
        percent pkts retransmitted or dropped.
    sploss
        percent source pkts retransmitted or dropped.
    dploss
        percent destination pkts retransmitted or dropped.
    rate
        pkts per second.
    srate
        source pkts per second.
    drate
        destination pkts per second.
    tranref
        argus transaction reference number.
    seq argus sequence number.
    smpls
        source MPLS identifier.
    dmpls
        destination MPLS identifier.
    svlan
        source VLAN identifier.
    dvlan
        destination VLAN identifier.
    srcid
        argus source identifier.
    stcpb
        source TCP base sequence number.
    dtcpb
        destination TCP base sequence number.
    tcprtt
        TCP connection setup round-trip time.

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),

FILES

AUTHORS
Carter Bullard (carter@qosient.com).

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