Multi-blade Traffic Capture (tcpdump -mcap, tcpdump -view)
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Multi-blade Traffic Capture (tcpdump -mcap, tcpdump -view)
Description
Use this command in Gaia gClish to see TCP/IP and other packets sent and received by all Security
Appliances in the Security Group.
This release includes these Security Group-specific enhancements to the standard
tcpdump
utility:
n
tcpdump -mcap
- Gets packets from specified Security Appliances and saves them to a capture
file.
n
tcpdump -view
- Shows packets in the specified capture file, including the Security Appliance ID
from the packet captured packet.
Syntax
> tcpdump [-b <
SGM_IDs
>] -mcap -w <
capture_path
> [<
tcpdump_ops
>]
> tcpdump -view -r <
capture_path
> [<
tcpdump_ops
>]
Note
- To stop the capture and save the data to the capture file, press
CTRL+C
at the prompt.
Parameters
Parameter
Description
-b <
SGM_
IDs
>
Applies to Security Appliances as specified by
<
SGM_IDs
>
.
<
SGM_IDs
>
can be:
n
No
<
SGM_IDs
> specified, or
all
- Applies to all Security Appliances and
Chassis
n
One Security Appliance (for example,
1_1
)
n
A comma-separated list of Security Appliances (for example,
1_1,1_4
)
n
A range of Security Appliances (for example,
1_1-1_4
)
n
One Chassis (
chassis1
, or
chassis2
)
n
The active Chassis (
chassis_active
)
-w
<
capture_
path
>
Saves full file path.
In addition to the merged capture file, for each Security Appliance capture files are
created in the same directory, suffixed by their Security Appliance ID.
-r
<
capture_
path
>
Reads the specified traffic capture file.
Regular
tcpdump
output, prefixed by Security Appliance ID of the processing Security
Appliance ID.
<tcpdump_
ops>
Standard
tcpdump
parameters (see the
tcpdump
manual page).