Re: [sweetspot-users] pass a filter as argument

[Ilya E. <il...@gl...>]

Hi Asoh,

Session filter could be  passed to sweeuam either UP or DN commands:

$ sweetuam 192.168.1.123 DN my-filter
$ sweetuam --help
Usage: sweetuam [ -hV ] [ -d <n> ] event ip [ arg [ arg [...] ] ]
Options:
     -h             this help message
     -V             software version information
     -d debug-what 
[io,snat,dnat,filter,uam,acct,session,relay,tuple,netset,frag,core,relations,gauge,lhstat,breath,all,]
     -c filename    configuration file (default 
/usr/local/etc/sweetspot/sweetuam.conf)
Events:
   UP ip [ filter-name [ interim-interval [ max-octets-in [ 
max-octets-out [ max-bps-in [ max-bps-out [ max-duration [ max-idle [ 
session-context [ event-context ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ]
   -> OK ip
   -> ER error-message
   DN ip [ filter-name [ session-context [ event-context ] ] ]
   -> OK ip
   -> ER error-message
   ST ip
   -> OK ip UP|DN session-id filter-name interim-interval session-context
   -> ER error-message
   LI ip
   -> OK ip max-octets-in max-octets-out max-bps-in max-bps-out 
max-duration max-idle
   -> ER error-message
   CN ip
   -> OK ip octets-in octets-out bps-in bps-out duration idle
   -> ER error-message
   PE ip
   -> OK ip bps-in bps-out
   -> ER error-message
   OU ip
   -> OK ip snat-ip low-snat-port high-snat-port
   -> ER error-message
   IN snat-ip snat-port
   -> OK snat-ip snat-port ip
   -> ER error-message
   Arguments:
     [snat-]ip             xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
     session-id            0..UINT32
     filter-name           string, 0..64
     interim-interval      in seconds, 0..UINT32
     [max-]octets-in       0..UINT64
     [max-]octets-out      0..UINT64
     [max-]bps-in          0..UINT64
     [max-]bps-out         0..UINT64
     [max-]duration        in seconds, 0..UINT32
     [max-]idle            in seconds, 0..UINT32
     [low-|high-]snat-port 0..65535
     session-context       string
     event-context         string

-ilya

On 08/11/13 05:44, Asoh Frank wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I found in the help file that a filter(e.g anonymous) can be passed as 
> an argument in sweetuam. But my inexperience with linux command 
> doesn't help me understand
> how this is passed as an argument;for example something like "sweetuam 
> filtername" ?
>
> Please can someone explain how it works with some examples ?
>
> Thanks.
>