opFlow API Reference

opFlow API Reference

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Authentication

Authentication is required to access all methods listed below.

POST login (authenticate)

POST /cgi-omk/opFlow.pl

Authenticate to opFlow. 

Request

Parameter

Description

Parameter

Description

auth_username

The username to authenticate with

auth_password

The password for the user

Successful Response

A cookie is created and sent with the response.  This must be saved and passed with all requests below.  

Common Parameters

Many of the parameters are common over all calls and are used when they make sense.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

Parameter

Description

topn

Number of rows to return, any extra will be summarised into "Other" category

dns

"true", "false" or empty. When "true" opData will convert the IP address into a name for display (when relevant, eg. flowEndPoints)

summary

The column to summarise the values by.

Possible Value

meaning

octets or bytes

Summarise octet column (so size of packets)

packets

Summarise by number of packets

flows

Summarise by number of flows

time_tag_start

Epoch time to start the time period

time_tag_end

Epoch time to end the time period

period

[ Optional ] - If provided and time_tag_start/time_tag_end are not, this will set time_tag_start/time_tag_end from the current time back period. If start/end are provided they will override.

accepts m/h/d, eg. 15m, 2h, 3d

application

Filter by application given (when relevant)

port

Filter by port given (when relevant)

agent

Filter flows by specified agent

site_name

Filter flows by site

endpoint

Filter flows by endpoint (when relevant)

TopN

GET TopN for time period

GET /cgi-omk/opData.pl

This will return a structure

Required Parameters (along with common parameters)

Parameter

Description

Parameter

Description

act

Tells opData which data model you would like to load, all return TopN + Other (if there are extra)

Possible value

Meaning

flowSummary


Summarise all flows for each time slice, returns 1 dataset with all flows included

flowEndPoints

Flows summarised by endpoint

flowAppSources

Flows summarised by App Sources

flowAppDestinations

Flows summarised by App Desitinations

flowApplications

Flows summarised by Application

flowTos

Flows summarised by TOS

flowTalkers

Flows summarised by Talker

flowListeners

Flows summarised by Listener

summarise

the size in seconds of each time slice, eg, 60 with flowEndPoints will summarise all records for each endpoint for each minute (so the dataset will have 1 record for every 60 seconds for each TopN endpoint)

Request example output:

{ "data": [ { "data": [ 797, 10147, 18322, 36579, 8059, 43464, 3658, 18222, 27292, 4002, 43059, 3556, 8689, 36700, 0, 0 ], "name": "Other", "type": "area" }, { "data": [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 18554181, 30147004, 61861232, 72973960, 3795368, 134633928, 0, 0, 0, 0 ], "name": "ssh:server1.opmantek.com", "type": "area" } ], "func": "flowAppSources", "interval": 60000, "javascript_time_tag_start": [ 2014, 10, "06", 11, 30, 44, 0 ], "time_tag_end_label": "6-Nov-2014 11:45:44", "time_tag_start_label": "6-Nov-2014 11:30:44" }

 

GET TopN summarised by time period (pie charts)

GET /cgi-omk/opData.pl

Required Parameters (along with common parameters)

Parameter

Description

Parameter

Description

act

Tells opData which data model you would like to load, all return TopN + Other (if there are extra)

Possible value

Meaning

topnFlows


Summarise all flows by endpoint/application

topnEndPoints

Summarise all flows by endpoint

topnApplications

Summarise all flows by Application

Example output:

{ "data": [ { "id": "192.168.1.1", "model": "topnEndPoints", "name": "server1.opmantek.com (192.168.1.1)", "y": 0.88 }, { "id": "Other", "model": "topnEndPoints", "name": "Other", "y": 0.12 }, ], "func": "topnEndPoints", "javascript_time_tag_start": [ 2014, 10, "06", 11, 30, 44, 0 ] }