Re-processing already captured data with a new version of Packetscope2 can be useful. The following steps demonstrate how to do this.
Step 1) Generate list of captures to process
Using the command
This will list all captures on the system.
Example shown below
In this example we want to process 2 captures named
Step 2) list of captures in a file
create a file, in this case file_list and place the names of captures to be processed one line at a time.
An example is shown below
Step 3) Run batch processing script
Run the batch processing script with the format
Example is shown below
This will continue to run until all files have been processed and updated. This may take some time depending on how much data has been processed.
Step 4) Confirm data
Confirm all data is present in Grafana after processing has completed.