Re: NetFlow v5 required for FlowScan-1.00[234] (was "Re: RRD files generated by FlowScan have no data")

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Subject: Re: NetFlow v5 required for FlowScan-1.00[234] (was "Re: RRD files generated by FlowScan have no data")
From: Ahsan Khan (ahsank@one.net.pk)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 17:49:33 CDT

I am not getting any flow files, When i run cflowd it just create my router
Ethernet ip address named dir and there i have the files name arts.20000
etc,,

    Can you tell me how to create flow files .??

With Regards
Ahsan Khan
Sr. System Admin
Internet Division (OneNet)
Sun Communication Pvt. Ltd.
Pakistan
http://www.one.net.pk


----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Caine" <todd_caine@eli.net>
To: "Ahsan Khan" <ahsank@one.net.pk>; <flowscan@net.doit.wisc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 3:23 AM
Subject: Re: NetFlow v5 required for FlowScan-1.00[234] (was "Re: RRD files
generated by FlowScan have no data")


> If your flow files are located in /var/local/flows then try the following:
>
> cd /var/local/flows
> nohup /var/local/flows/bin/flowscan &
>
> Hopefully you will see a message similar to:
>
> Working of file flows.2000........
>
> I can't seem to get flowscan to do anything unless I am in the same
directory as
> the raw flow files when I start flowscan.  Let me know if this works for
you.
>
> -Todd
>
>
>
> Ahsan Khan wrote:
>
> > Dear David,
> >
> >         I am once again emailing you about my Problem,
> >
> >     My problem is that after installing each & everything when i start
> > Flowscan its start fine but there is no .rrd files in graph dir . i have
> > once again cross check all my installation and configurations but found
> > nothing.
> >
> > can i get any help .??
> > here is the output of my flowscan startup.
> >
> > [root@mail bin]# ./flowscan
> > Loading "Napster_subnets.boulder" ...
> > Loading "local_nets.boulder" ...
> > sleep 300...
> >
> > With Regards
> > Ahsan Khan
> > Sr. System Admin
> > Internet Division (OneNet)
> > Sun Communication Pvt. Ltd.
> > Pakistan
> > http://www.one.net.pk
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave Plonka" <plonka@doit.wisc.edu>
> > To: <flowscan@net.doit.wisc.edu>
> > Cc: "Krishna Raman" <krishna@netwhistle.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 12:09 AM
> > Subject: NetFlow v5 required for FlowScan-1.00[234] (was "Re: RRD files
> > generated by FlowScan have no data")
> >
> > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 11:01:01AM -0400, Krishna Raman wrote:
> > > > Thanks for the information.
> > > >
> > > > This is for David Plonka
> > > > --------------------------
> > > > I think it will be useful to state in the flowscan
> > > > web page that it does not support Version 1. May be
> > > > I overlooked the configuration piece of it, but it
> > > > is not very evident that it DOES NOT support version 1.
> > >
> > > You are correct.  In the INSTALL doc I only *suggest* that you export
> > > from your Cisco like this:
> > >
> > >    ip flow-export version 5 peer-as
> > >
> > > I'll add a note about requiring v5 in the "Hardware Requirements"
> > > section I guess.
> > >
> > > Technically, it is the current Cflow perl module used by FlowScan that
> > > requires NetFlow version 5.  When I added version 5 support to
Cflow.pm
> > > I removed version 1 support because I couldn't imagine anyone wanting
> > > to use it once version 5 was available.  I realize it may require an
> > > IOS upgrade to get v5, but many of us find that we can't help but stay
> > > fairly current with IOS because of other features we need.
> > >
> > > > Ofcourse, FlowScan is a great utility though.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dave
> > >
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