ipfixcol2-ipfix-input(7)

✨ ipfixcol2-ipfix-input ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the ipfixcol2-ipfix-input manual page — she's a 7 (that's a plugin doc, iykyk), she lives in the IPFIXcol collector family, and she is literally so good at her one job 💅

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🌸 Name 🌸

ipfixcol2-ipfix-input — IPFIX File (input plugin) 🫶

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🦋 Description 🦋

So like, this plugin reads flow data from one or more files in IPFIX File format. That's the whole vibe. ✨

And the cute part? You can use it to load flow records that you saved earlier with the IPFIX output plugin. It's giving save-file-then-load-file, main character energy fr fr 💖

Now here's where it lowkey differs from her siblings: unlike the UDP and TCP input plugins, which infinitely wait for data from NetFlow/IPFIX exporters (like, forever, no cap 😭), this plugin will terminate the collector after all files are processed. She reads, she's done, she leaves. Periodt. 👑

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🎀 Example configuration 🎀

<input>
    <name>IPFIX File</name>
    <plugin>ipfix</plugin>
    <params>
        <path>/tmp/flow/file.ipfix</path>
    </params>
</input>

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💖 Parameters 💖

• path — Path to file(s) in IPFIX File format. Bestie you have options, and they are iconic: you can use an asterisk instead of a filename/directory, a tilde character (i.e. "~") instead of the home directory of the user, and brace expressions (i.e. "/tmp/{source1,source2}/file.ipfix"). And fyi — directories and non-IPFIX Files that match the file pattern are skipped/ignored 🙈 (she said not today).
• bufferSize — Optional size of the internal buffer to which the content of the file is partly preloaded. [default: 1048576, min: 131072] ⭐

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👑 Author 👑

Lukas Hutak (lukas.hutak@cesnet.cz) — we love her, we thank her 🫶

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🌈 Copyright 🌈

Copyright © 2020 CESNET, z.s.p.o.

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okay that's the whole page, you ate it, go configure your collector and slay 💅✨🦋🍓

ipfixcol2-ipfix-input — version 2.0, dated 2020-04-23, part of the IPFIXcol collector family. bye bestie, mwah 💜