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CT2DB

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Updated: perl v5.6.0
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NAME

ct2db

SYNOPSIS

ct2db [-v] [options]

There are no required options. If database options are omitted, saved options from ~/.ct2db_rc are loaded (see -S). If the load fails, ct2db will exit with an error.

DESCRIPTION

ct2db is a traceroute tool output parser that stores parsed data in to a MySQL database. ct2db will automatically create the database if it doesn't exist, provided its database credentials permit it to do so. ct2db is programmed entirely in perl.

ct2db supports multiple traceroute implementations. Although far more useful when parsing ctrace (http://pratyeka.org/ctrace) output, ct2db will parse standard 4.3BSD traceroute(8) and Microsoft Windows(TM) tracert output as well. It is quite likely that minor variations of these implementations will parse at least partially, too.

IN THE CURRENT VERSION OF CT2DB, TRACEROUTE IMPLEMENTATIONS OTHER THAN CTRACE 0.8 HAVE BEEN TEMPORARILY DISABLED

OPTIONS

-h: Display command line help screen.
-n dbname: Specifies database name.
-P port: Specifies database port.
-p password: Specifies database password.
-S: Save database options (-n, -P, -p, -u) to the run-control file; ~/.ct2db_rc. Any previous settings will be overwritten without prompting.
-u username: Specifies database username.
-v: Verbose mode. Produces a large quantity of debugging output.

URL

The latest version of the code can be found at http://pratyeka.org/ct2db/

BUGS, SUGGESTIONS, ETC.

Send to the author.

AUTHOR

Walter Stanish <walter@pratyeka.org>

HISTORY

ct2db was developed as an add-on for the ctrace traceroute implementation. Instead of implementing database output in ctrace, ct2db was created as a seperate tool capable of parsing other traceroute(8) implementations.

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Time: 11:39:49 GMT, August 14, 2001