RAT - The Trisul real time system monitor

The rat executable is located in /usr/local/bin/.

RAT monitors the internal performance characteristics of Trisul pipelines. Use it when you are trying to tune the performance of the packet capture and analytics pipelines.

Full Command line

[root@li76-90 ~]# rat probe-config-file packet-capture-method

The packet capture method parameter is one of rxring , afp - AF_PACKET, libpcap, ffpcap - packet capture from file.

An example run

[root@li76-90 ~]# rat /usr/local/etc/trisul-probe/domain0/probe0/context0/trisulProbeConfig.xml rxring 

You can also use the helper aliases defined in trisbashrc to make it easier to start RAT. See the screenshots below.

Demo

The following screenshots show RAT in action.