ipfixcol2-dummy-output(7)

✨ NAME ✨

ipfixcol2-dummy-output — the Dummy output plugin, bestie 💅

(that's the man page ipfixcol2-dummy-output(7) from the IPFIXcol collector, hi, welcome, come sit with us 🫶)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so listen. This plugin is the vibe check plugin. It gives you a way to test the collector without actually storing any data — like, zero, none, not a single byte goes into storage. It's giving "I'm here for the rehearsal, not the performance" 😌

And here's the fun part: every single processing of an IPFIX packet can have a delay that you specify. So you can:

• test the throughput of the collector 🌈
• figure out the required performance of output plugins ⭐

Basically it's a little controlled chaos simulator so you know what your real setup has to survive. Iconic behavior honestly.

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🎀 EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION 🎀

Copy this, it's exact, don't freestyle on the angle brackets:

<output>
    <name>Dummy output</name>
    <plugin>dummy</plugin>
    <params>
        <delay>0</delay>
        <stats>true</stats>
    </params>
</output>

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💖 PARAMETERS 💖

• delay — the minimum delay between processing of two consecutive messages, measured in microseconds. Yes, microseconds, we're precise in this house 🧚
• stats — prints basic statistics after termination: that's flows, bytes, packets. 📊 [values: true/false, default: false]

lowkey important: stats defaults to false, so if you want the numbers you have to ask for the numbers, bestie 💀

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Lukáš Huták (lukas.hutak@cesnet.cz), Petr Velan (petr.velan@cesnet.cz) — the girlies who built this, we stan 🫶

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright © 2018 CESNET, z.s.p.o.

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okay that's the whole page, you're all caught up, go test that throughput and tell me how it goes ✨

this was ipfixcol2-dummy-output(7) from the IPFIXcol collector, version 2.0, dated 2018-09-20 — periodt, that's the whole sign-off, mwah 💋