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Configuring File Formats

You configure data file formats, name formats, and transfer characteristics for the flow collection files. File records are sent to the destination FTP server when the timer expires or when a preset number of records are received, whichever comes first.

To configure the flow collection file format, include the file-specification statement at the [edit services flow-collector] hierarchy level:




file-specification {



variant variant-number {

data-format format;

name-format format;



transfer {
record-level number;
timeout seconds;
}


}


}

To set the data file format, include the data-format statement. To set the file name format, include the name-format statement. To set the export timer and file size thresholds, include the transfer statement and specify values for the timeout and record-level options.

For example, you can specify the name format as follows:



[edit services flow-collector file-specification variant variant-number]
name-format "cFlowd-py69Ni69-0-%D_%T-%I_%N.bcp.bi.gz";

In this example, cFlowd-py69Ni69-0 is the static portion used verbatim, %D is the date in YYYYMMDD format, %T is the time in HHMMSS format, %I is the value of ifAlias, %N is the generation number, and bcp.bi.gz is a user-configured string. A number of macros are supported for expressing the date and time information in different ways; for a complete list, see the summary section for name-format.

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