NAME

fwctlacctreport - Generates text reports from the fwctl_acct file.

SYNOPSIS

fwctlacctreport [--start report_start] [--end report_end | --period report_period ] [--sample day|hour] [--names chain...] [--reports report ...] logfile ...

fwctlacctreport --help

DESCRIPTION

fwctlacctreport can be use to generates reports from the output of the fwctl dump-acct command. It will generates either summary or histogram-like report for the accounting data.

INPUT OPTIONS

The records on which the report will be generated can be customized with the following options.

start

Sets the start of the report's period. If the Date::Manip(3) module is installed, you can use any format that this module can parse. If that module isn't installed you must use the following format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS or any meaningful subset of that format.

If this option is not used, the report will start with the first record.

end

Sets the end of the report's period. If the Date::Manip(3) module is installed, you can use any format that this module can parse. If that module is'nt installed you must use the following format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS or any meaningful subset of that format.

If this option is not used, the report will end with the last record.

period

Sets the length of the report's period. This length is interpreted relative to the report's start. This option has priority over the end option.

If you have the Date::Manip module installed, you can use any format that this module can parse. If that module isn't available, you can use a subset of the following format X weeks X days X hours X mins X secs.

names

Restrict the report to the chains specified by this option.

You can use this parameter multiple times to specify multiple possibility. The record will be included if it matches any of those.

OUTPUT OPTIONS

To customize output you can use the following options :

sample

This option can be set to day or hour. This determines if the program will report hourly sample or daily sample.

report

You can use this option to specify the reports that will be generated. By default, the summary report is generated.

REPORT

Here are the reports that can be generated :

summary

Report that shows the total packets and bytes for each chains.

packets

Report that number of packets received by each chain for each hours or days (depending on the setting of the sample option).

bytes

Report that number of bytes received by each chain for each hours or days (depending on the setting of the sample option).

AUTHOR

Francis J. Lacoste <francis.lacoste@iNsu.COM>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2000 iNsu Innovations Inc. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

SEE ALSO

Fwctl(3) Fwctl::RuleSet(3) fwctl(8) fwctllog(8) Fwctl::AcctReport(3).