Hi, Today I came across the R application and I will admit I am not a Statistician. However, I think this application will be useful for me at work. I am a Network/System Security Engineer trying to make sense of the huge security data I collect. I am trying to visualize the traffic on our network. The data in the packet header (captured by tcpdump) has all the information about the systems on the network. There are lots of visual tools that can present the data in a meaningful way. Each tool seems to have a different data format while most tools seem to understand CSV format? How do I select the subset of the network data or syslog data and create a CSV file? How else can the R application help me present the security data in a meaningful way to the management? Please excuse my ignorance. Thank you. Subba Rao
Subba Rao wrote:> Hi, > > Today I came across the R application and I will admit I am not a > Statistician. However, I think this application will be useful for me > at work. I am a Network/System Security Engineer trying to make sense > of the huge security data I collect. I am trying to visualize the > traffic on our network. The data in the packet header (captured by > tcpdump) has all the information about the systems on the network. > > There are lots of visual tools that can present the data in a meaningful > way. Each tool seems to have a different data format while most tools > seem to understand CSV format? How do I select the subset of the > network data or syslog data and create a CSV file?Sniff is a good tool: http://www.thedumbterminal.co.uk/software/sniff.shtml> > How else can the R application help me present the security data in a > meaningful way to the management?Depends on what you want to present> > Please excuse my ignorance. > > Thank you. > > Subba Rao > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >
Saeed Abu Nimeh wrote:> Subba Rao wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Today I came across the R application and I will admit I am not a >> Statistician. However, I think this application will be useful for me >> at work. I am a Network/System Security Engineer trying to make sense >> of the huge security data I collect. I am trying to visualize the >> traffic on our network. The data in the packet header (captured by >> tcpdump) has all the information about the systems on the network. >> >> There are lots of visual tools that can present the data in a meaningful >> way. Each tool seems to have a different data format while most tools >> seem to understand CSV format? How do I select the subset of the >> network data or syslog data and create a CSV file? >> > > Sniff is a good tool: http://www.thedumbterminal.co.uk/software/sniff.shtml >Thank you for pointing out this tool. This one is a good start. Subba Rao