Extend fw ctl multik print_heavy_conn beyond 24 hours?

[Timothy_Hall]

By default the command fw ctl multik print_heavy_conn will show all current and past elephant/heavy flows that were detected on the security gateway in the last 24 hours.  Questions:

1) Is there any way to tweak the 24 hours to some longer value?

2) Any way to keep some kind of historical log file of these elephant flows, even if it is just some kind of simple text file log on the gateway?

Thanks!

[PhoneBoy]

@Chen_Muchtar any idea?

[AmitShmuel · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Starting R81 JHF T42 and R80.40 JHF T150, the CPU Spike Detective tool will run the print_heavy_conn command upon detecting a FW worker causing a CPU spike.

The output will be saved in /var/log/spike_detective/data_spike_thread_<Thread_ID>_<Date>_<Time>/heavy_conns_<Instance_ID>.log

It will also save the top connections by running the top_conns tool.

See sk166454.

Thanks,
Amit

[Timothy_Hall]

Recently in my Gateway Performance Optimization class someone asked me why the spike detective doesn't log what connections were present at the time of spike, as it just logging that a worker USFW instance process got spiked was not particularly helpful.  Best answer I could give at the time was to check for spikes daily and run a print_heavy_conn within 24 hours of a logged spike.  This change will help a lot, thanks!