uid

User ID intermediate plugin

Plugin description

Plugin uses sqlite3 database and fills user information according to source and destination address for each IPFIX data record.

SQL database

SQL database file must contain table logs with these columns:

• id - integer, primary key
• name - string to be copied into the metadata structure
• ip - IP address in text format
• action - numerical value, 1 == login, 0 == logout
• time - unix timestamp in seconds

Configuration

Default plugin configuration in internalcfg.xml:

<intermediatePlugin>
    <name>profiler</name>
    <file>/usr/share/ipfixcol/plugins/ipfixcol-profiler-inter.so</file>
    <threadName>profiler</threadName>
</intermediatePlugin>

Or as ipfixconf output:

     Plugin type         Name/Format     Process/Thread         File        
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
	 intermediate            uid              uid           /usr/share/ipfixcol/plugins/ipfixcol-uid-inter.so

Example startup.xml configuration:

<uid>
	<path>/path/to/dbfile.db</path>
</uid>

• path is path to the SQL database file.

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