opFlow 3.0 API Reference
Authentication
Authentication is required to access all methods listed below.
POST login (authenticate)
POST /en/omk/opFlow/login
Authenticate to opFlow.
Request
Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
username | The username to authenticate with |
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.
Obtaining data from the API
Get Request, submitting the parameters required on the table below.
GET /en/omk/opFlow/data_model_view/new.json?requestData={"parameters":{}}
Common Parameters and Required Parameters
Many of the parameters are common over all calls and are used when they make sense.
Some parameters are required and marked with a font wight: bold.
Parameters
Parameter | Description | ||||||||||||||
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start_date_raw | Epoch time to start the time period. | ||||||||||||||
end_date_raw | Epoch time to end the time period. | ||||||||||||||
group_by | Accepts a List of values. Values: "application", "src_ip", "dst_ip",etc. e.g: To group by "Application Conversations" "group_by":["src_ip","dst_ip","application"] Note: This parameter is required and needs at least to be set to one value to work. | ||||||||||||||
flow_type | Accepts a list of values, is used to specify the summary type.
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options | Is a has and accepts the following parameters:
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Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
model | The model used to obtain the flow summaries. Value must be set to: "opFlow_flows_summary" |
Model view
Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
model_view | Set value to: "raw" Return the data in JSON format. |
Search
It is possible to do a search with the following argument passed to the request.
argument | options |
|---|---|
&search={ } | Accepts a hash of values, but only one can be use at a time. |
| Possible values to search by "Applications", "Source", "Source Port", "Destination" and "Destination Port" "application":"regex:abc" "dnsname_src_ip":"regex:abc" "src_port":"portNumber" "dnsname_dst_ip":"regex:abc" "dnsname_dst_ip":"regex:abc" "dst_port":"portNumber"
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TopN
Required Parameters (along with common parameters)
To obtain TopN data. The TopN limit must be set in the option list.
Parameter | Description | ||||
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options | Is a has and accepts the following parameters:
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Request example output:
Get Top 5 Applications from October 10. 2018 4:22:00 PM GMT+10:00 (1539152520) to October 10, 2018 6:22:00 PM GMT+10:00 (1539159720), sorted by octets (bytes) in descending order, getting only reply data.
http://demo.opmantek.com/en/omk/opFlow/data_model_view/new.json?requestData={"parameters":{"start_date_raw":1539152520,"end_date_raw":1539159720,"group_by":["application"],"flow_type":["application"]},"options":{"limit":5,"sort":{"octets":-1},"only_reply_data":"true"},"model":"opFlow_flows_summary","model_view":"raw"}Response
[{
"application": "UDP:32760",
"avg_octets_sec": null,
"avg_packets_sec": null,
"duration": 28642.8639996052,
"flows": 628,
"flows_pct": 0.00888348209865192,
"octets": 440351659,
"octets_pct": 0.814896754348869,
"packets": 769974,
"packets_pct": 0.592798410938655
},
{
"application": "snmp",
"avg_octets_sec": null,
"avg_packets_sec": null,
"duration": 31849.9360135078,
"flows": 7227,
"flows_pct": 0.102230772495155,
"octets": 58955621,
"octets_pct": 0.109100858874071,
"packets": 302235,
"packets_pct": 0.232688932002956
},
{
"application": "https",
"avg_octets_sec": null,
"avg_packets_sec": null,
"duration": 32292.7479987144,
"flows": 4369,
"flows_pct": 0.0618024415430099,
"octets": 24644811,
"octets_pct": 0.0456066784011851,
"packets": 46621,
"packets_pct": 0.0358932310914018
},
{
"application": "ICMP:Echo Request",
"avg_octets_sec": null,
"avg_packets_sec": null,
"duration": 542978.315999269,
"flows": 26946,
"flows_pct": 0.381169281258399,
"octets": 7545636,
"octets_pct": 0.0139636451009669,
"packets": 89845,
"packets_pct": 0.0691711320522296
},
{
"application": "ICMP:Echo Reply",
"avg_octets_sec": null,
"avg_packets_sec": null,
"duration": 335198.47600317,
"flows": 11506,
"flows_pct": 0.16276010354632,
"octets": 3207540,
"octets_pct": 0.00593574222334012,
"packets": 38201,
"packets_pct": 0.0294107230845036
}
]