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.TH RAGATOR 1 "21 July 1995"
.SH NAME
\fBragator\fP \- aggregate \fBargus(8)\fP data file entries.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2000-2003 QoSient. All rights reserved.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ragator
[\fB\-f\fP \fIragator.conf\fP] [\fBraoptions\fP]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX  "ragator command"  ""  "\fLragator\fP \(em argus data"
.LP
.B Ragator
reads \fBargus(8)\fP data from an \fIargus-file\fP, and merges
matching argus flow activity records together.  In its default
mode of options, this effectively converts \fBargus(8)\fP
files from detail to non-detail mode, and merges periodic flow report
records to a single argus record, thus compressing the
\fBargus(8)\fP file to a reduced size.

You can modify the aggregation strategy used by \fBragator\fP to
merge records together, by using the \fB-f ragator.conf\fP option.  
See \fBragator(5)\fP for a complete description of the format
and syntax of the flow model file.

.LP
.SH OPTIONS
Ragator, like all ra based clients, supports a number of
\fBra options\fP including filtering of input argus
records through a terminating filter expression.
See \fBra(1)\fP for a complete description of \fBra options\fP.

.SH AUTHORS
.nf
Carter Bullard (carter@qosient.com).
.fi
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ragator (5)
.BR ra (1),
.BR rarc (5),
.BR argus (8)
.BR tcpdump (1),