Operation of the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Protocol on IPFIX Mediators
draft-ietf-ipfix-mediation-protocol-08
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| Document | Type | Active Internet-Draft (ipfix WG) | |
| Authors | Benoît Claise , Atsushi Kobayashi , Brian Trammell | ||
| Last updated | 2013-12-05 (latest revision 2013-11-25) | ||
| Replaces | draft-claise-ipfix-mediation-protocol | ||
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IPFIX Working Group B. Claise
Internet-Draft Cisco Systems, Inc.
Intended status: Standards Track A. Kobayashi
Expires: May 30, 2014 NTT
B. Trammell
ETH Zurich
November 26, 2013
Operation of the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Protocol on IPFIX
Mediators
draft-ietf-ipfix-mediation-protocol-08.txt
Abstract
This document specifies the operation of the IP Flow Information
Export (IPFIX) protocol specific to IPFIX Mediators, including
Template and Observation Point management, timing considerations, and
other Mediator-specific concerns.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. IPFIX Documents Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. IPFIX Mediator Documents Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3. Relationship with the IPFIX and PSAMP Protocols . . . . . 5
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Handling IPFIX Message Headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4. Template Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.1. Passing Unmodified Templates through an IPFIX Mediator . 10
4.1.1. Template Mapping and Information Element Ordering . . 14
4.2. Creating New Templates at an IPFIX Mediator . . . . . . . 15
4.3. Handling Unknown Information Elements . . . . . . . . . . 15
5. Preserving Original Observation Point Information . . . . . . 16
5.1. originalExporterIPv4Address Information Element . . . . . 18
5.2. originalExporterIPv6Address Information Element . . . . . 18
6. Managing Observation Domain IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.1. originalObservationDomainId Information Element . . . . . 19
7. Timing Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
8. Transport Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
9. Collecting Process Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
10. Specific Reporting Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
10.1. Intermediate Process Reliability Statistics Options
Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10.2. Flow Key Options Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
10.3. intermediateProcessId Information Element . . . . . . . 23
10.4. ignoredDataRecordTotalCount Information Element . . . . 24
11. Operations and Management Considerations . . . . . . . . . . 24
12. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
13. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
14. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
15. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
15.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
15.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
1. Introduction
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