Is it possible that the MySQL timestamps are set automagically by the
database, as part of the insert query, completely ignoring the timestamps
in the flow?

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Steffen Plotner <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> We have a Palo Alto firewall and are trying to use pmacct to collect its
> netflow data. I have been able to get everything to work for netflow v9
> type data expect for the timestamps. Most timestamps are current and some
> go back one month. The wireshark trace of the netflow data does show such
> values in the Timestamp field. When writing out the data to flat files the
> time goes back in the past. That same data written to the mysql server is
> correct in terms of the timestamp - todays date/time.
>
> I have the following
> nfacctd_time_new: true
>
> which is apparently effective for the mysql side - but it appears not on
> the file side…
>
> file output
> {"label": "netflow_fcnet_in_conv", "tcp_flags": "0", "application":
> "bittorrent", "ip_src": "144.76.96.199", "port_src": 38914, "ip_dst":
> "148.85.185.85", "port_dst": 41986, "timestamp_start": "2015-03-09
> 15:25:43.0", "ip_proto": "udp", "timestamp_end": "2015-03-09 15:45:43.0",
> "username": "", "packets": 4, "bytes": 409, "flows": 1}
>
> Mysql output
>         *ip_src* *ip_dst* *port_src* *port_dst* *tcp_flags* *ip_proto*
> *packets* *bytes* *stamp_inserted* *stamp_updated* *country_ip_src*
> *country_ip_dst* *username* *application*  144.76.96.199 148.85.185.85
> 38914 41986 0 udp 4 409 4/1/2015 4:25:00 PM 4/1/2015 4:25:15 PM -- --
> bittorrent
>
> Steffen
>
>
>
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