# flow-export

## Name

flow-export -- Export flow-tools files into other NetFlow packages.

## Synopsis

flow-export [-h] [-d`debug_level`] [-f`format`] [-m`mask_fields`] [-u`user:password:host:port:name:table`]

## DESCRIPTION

The flow-export utility will convert flow-tools flow files to ASCII CSV, cflowd, pcap, wire, mySQL, and PGSQL format.

## OPTIONS

-d`debug_level`

  Enable debugging.

-f`format`

  Export format. Supported formats are: 0 cflowd 1 pcap 2 ASCII CSV 3 MySQL 4 wire 5 PGSQL

-h

  Display help.

-m`mask_fields`

  Select fields for MySQL, PostgresSQL, cflowd, and ASCII formats. The `mask_fields` is built from a bitwise OR of the following:

          UNIX_SECS       0x0000000000000001LL
          UNIX_NSECS      0x0000000000000002LL
          SYSUPTIME       0x0000000000000004LL
          EXADDR          0x0000000000000008LL

          DFLOWS          0x0000000000000010LL
          DPKTS           0x0000000000000020LL
          DOCTETS         0x0000000000000040LL
          FIRST           0x0000000000000080LL

          LAST            0x0000000000000100LL
          ENGINE_TYPE     0x0000000000000200LL
          ENGINE_ID       0x0000000000000400LL

          SRCADDR         0x0000000000001000LL
          DSTADDR         0x0000000000002000LL
          SRC_PREFIX      0x0000000000004000LL
          DST_PREFIX      0x0000000000008000LL
          NEXTHOP         0x0000000000010000LL
          INPUT           0x0000000000020000LL
          OUTPUT          0x0000000000040000LL
          SRCPORT         0x0000000000080000LL

          DSTPORT         0x0000000000100000LL
          PROT            0x0000000000200000LL
          TOS             0x0000000000400000LL
          TCP_FLAGS       0x0000000000800000LL

          SRC_MASK        0x0000000001000000LL
          DST_MASK        0x0000000002000000LL
          SRC_AS          0x0000000004000000LL
          DST_AS          0x0000000008000000LL

          IN_ENCAPS       0x0000000010000000LL
          OUT_ENCAPS      0x0000000020000000LL
          PEER_NEXTHOP    0x0000000040000000LL
          ROUTER_SC       0x0000000080000000LL
          EXTRA_PKTS      0x0000000100000000LL
          MARKED_TOS      0x0000000200000000LL

  When exporting to cflowd format the `mask_fields` field is the cflowd mask which is defined as the following:

          ROUTERMASK         0x00000001
          SRCIPADDRMASK      0x00000002
          DSTIPADDRMASK      0x00000004
          INPUTIFINDEXMASK   0x00000008
          OUTPUTIFINDEXMASK  0x00000010
          SRCPORTMASK        0x00000020
          DSTPORTMASK        0x00000040
          PKTSMASK           0x00000080
          BYTESMASK          0x00000100
          IPNEXTHOPMASK      0x00000200
          STARTTIMEMASK      0x00000400
          ENDTIMEMASK        0x00000800
          PROTOCOLMASK       0x00001000
          TOSMASK            0x00002000
          SRCASMASK          0x00004000
          DSTASMASK          0x00008000
          SRCMASKLENMASK     0x00010000
          DSTMASKLENMASK     0x00020000
          TCPFLAGSMASK       0x00040000
          INPUTENCAPMASK     0x00080000
          OUTPUTENCAPMASK    0x00100000
          PEERNEXTHOPMASK    0x00200000
          ENGINETYPEMASK     0x00400000
          ENGINEIDMASK       0x00800000

          INDEX_V1_MASK      0x00043FFF
          INDEX_V5_MASK      0x00C7FFFF
          INDEX_V6_MASK      0x00FFFFFF
          INDEX_V7_MASK      0x00C7FFFF
          INDEX_V8_1_MASK    0x00C0CD99
          INDEX_V8_2_MASK    0x00C00DE1
          INDEX_V8_3_MASK    0x00C14D8B
          INDEX_V8_4_MASK    0x00C28D95
          INDEX_V8_5_MASK    0x00C3CD9F

  The default value is all fields applicable to the the flow file, or the cflowd INDEX mask applicabable to the export format.

-u`user:password:host:port:name:table`

  Configure MySQL or PostgresSQL Access.

## EXAMPLES

Convert the flow-tools file `flows` to the cflowd file `flows.cflowd`. Include all fields.

flow-export -f0 < flows > flows.cflowd

## EXAMPLES

Convert the flow-tools file `flows` to the ASCII. Include the SRCADDR and DSTADDR fields.

flow-export -f2 -m0x3000 < flows > flows.ascii

## EXAMPLES

Export the flow-tools file `flows` to an MySQL Database. Include only SRCADDR, DSTADDR and DOCTETS.

flow-export -f3 -mSRCADDR,DSTADDR,DOCTETS -u "user:password:host:port:name:table" < flows

## BUGS

The pcap format is a hack.

## AUTHOR

Mark Fullmer `<maf@splintered.net>`

Database Support: William Emmanuel Yu `<wyu@ateno.edu>`

## SEE ALSO

flow-tools(1)