Device-Specific Dimensions

Post-NAT Transport Port

The source/destination port identifier in the transport header, as modified by the firewall during network address port translation after the packet traversed the interface.

integer
Virtual

Src/Dst

Post-NAT Address

The IPv4 source/destination address in the IP packet header, as modified by the firewall during network address translation after the packet traversed the interface.

string
Virtual

Src/Dst

NAT Event

A NAT Event Type as defined in the IANA registry (see IPFIX NAT event types), such as NAT translation create, NAT translation delete, Threshold Reached, or Threshold Exceeded.

string
Native

Non-directional

Post-NAT Transport Port

The source/destination port identifier in the transport header, as modified by the firewall during network address port translation after the packet traversed the interface.

integer
Virtual

Src/Dst

Post-NAT Address

The IPv4 source/destination address in the IP packet header, as modified by the firewall during network address translation after the packet traversed the interface.

string
Virtual

Src/Dst

Flow ID

An identifier of a flow that is unique within an observation domain. You can use this information element to distinguish between different flows if flow keys such as IP addresses and port numbers are not reported or are reported in separate records. The flowID corresponds to the session ID field in Traffic and Threat logs.

integer
Virtual

Non-directional

Firewall Event

Indicates a firewall event:

• 0 = Ignore (invalid)—Not used.

• 1 = Flow created—The NetFlow data record is for a new flow.

• 2 = Flow deleted—The NetFlow data record is for the end of a flow.

• 3 = Flow denied—The NetFlow data record indicates a flow that firewall policy denied.

• 4 = Flow alert—Not used.

• 5 = Flow update—The NetFlow data record is sent for a long-lasting flow, which is a flow that lasts longer than the Active Timeout period configured in the NetFlow server profile.

integer
Virtual

Non-directional

Extended Event Code

Provides additional information about an event:

• 1001 = the flow was denied by an ingress ACL.

• 1002 = the flow was denied by an egress ACL.

• 1003 = the flow was denied because connection to ASA interface was denied, an ICMP packet (v4 or v6) was denied, or for an unspecified reason.

• 1004 = the flow denied because the first packet on the TCP was not a TCP SYN packet.

• 2001 or greater = the flow was terminated.

integer
Virtual

Non-directional

AAA Username

The username associated with the ASA instance that generated the flow.

string
Virtual

Non-directional

Ingress ACL

The ID of the ACL that was applied on the input interface and either permitted or denied the flow.

string
Virtual

Non-directional

Egress ACL

The ID of the ACL that was applied on the output interface and either permitted or denied the flow.

string
Virtual

Non-directional

Flow ID

An identifier of a flow that is unique within an observation domain. You can use this information element to distinguish between different flows if flow keys such as IP addresses and port numbers are not reported or are reported in separate records. Flow ID corresponds to the session ID field in Traffic and Threat logs.

integer
Native

Non-directional

Message

A Cisco ASA Series syslog message. Messages are listed by message ID in Cisco ASA Series Syslog Messages.

string
Native

Non-directional

Severity

The severity level of the message, which varies depending on the cause (see Messages Listed by Severity Level).

integer
Native

Non-directional

Message ID

The Cisco-assigned ID for the message.

integer
Native

Non-directional

Application

Application name, from the field 96.

string
Native

Non-directional

Application Category

Application category, from proprietary field 12232.

string
Native

Non-directional

Application Subcategory

Application subcategory, from proprietary field 12233.

string
Native

Non-directional

Application Group

Application group, from proprietary field 12234.

string
Native

Non-directional

Application Traffic Class

Application traffic class, from proprietary field 12243.

string
Native

Non-directional

Application Business Relevance

Application business relevance, from proprietary field 12244.

string
Native

Non-directional

Flow end reason

This information is extracted from IPFIX field 136. Possible values can be found in the IANA specification: IPFIX Flow End Reason.

integer
Native

Non-directional

VPN identifier

Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Device VPN identifier. The device uses the enterprise ID for VIP_IANA_ENUM or 41916, and the VPN element ID is 4321.

integer
Native

Non-directional

Overlay Session ID

A 32-bit identifier for input/output overlay session identifier. From proprietary fields 12432 and 12433.

integer
Native

Src/Dst

Routing VRF Service

Routing VRF Service, from proprietary field 12434.

integer
Native

Non-directional

Connection ID

A 64-bit identifier for a connection between client and server. From proprietary field 12441.

integer
Native

Non-directional

BFD avg latency

Calculation of the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) average latency for each tunnel. From proprietary field 45296.

integer
Native

Non-directional

BFD avg loss

Calculation of the BFD average loss for each tunnel. From proprietary field 45295.

integer
Native

Non-directional

BFD avg jitter

Calculation of the BFD average jitter for each tunnel. From proprietary field 45297.

integer
Native

Non-directional

BFD rx cnt

Count of received BFD packets. From proprietary field 45299.

counter

Non-directional

BFD tx cnt

Count of transmitted BFD packets, from proprietary field 45300.

counter

Non-directional

BFD rx octets

Count of received BFD octets, from proprietary field 45304.

bytes counter

Non-directional

BFD tx octets

Count of transmitted BFD octets, from proprietary field 45305.

bytes counter

Non-directional

Dest ToS

Entity 55: The IPFIX postIpClassOfService value, which is the post-observation value of  ToS (Type of Service) field (IPv4) or Traffic Class field (IPv6) in the packet header.

integer
Native

Dst only

Minimum TTL

Entity 52: The minimum value observed for the TTL (time to live) field in the IP header of any packet in this flow.

integer
Native

Non-directional

Maximum TTL

Entity 55: The maximum value observed for the TTL (time to live) field in the IP header of any packet in this flow.

integer
Native

Non-directional

Forwarding Status

Entity 89: The two-bit forwarding status of the flow and associated six-bit reason code or flag.

integer
Native

Non-directional

Unique ID

20-byte Unique ID that identifies the endpoint. From proprietary field 12332.

string
Native

Non-directional

Logged In User

This is the logged in user on the device, in the form Authority/Principle. From proprietary field 12333.

string
Native

Non-directional

Process Account

Authority/Principle of the process associated with the flow, e.g., “ACME/JSMITH, <machine>/JSMITH”. From proprietary field 12338.

string
Native

Non-directional

Process Name

Name of the process associated with the flow, e.g., “firefox.exe”. From proprietary field 12340.

string
Native

Non-directional

Process Hash

SHA256 hash of the process image on disk associated with the flow. From proprietary field 12341.

string
Native

Non-directional

Parent Process Account

Authority/Principle of the parent process associated with the flow, e.g., “ACME/JSMITH, <machine>/JSMITH”. From proprietary field 12339.

string
Native

Non-directional

Parent Process Name

Name of the parent process associated with the flow, e.g., “firefox.exe”. From proprietary field 12342.

string
Native

Non-directional

Parent Process Hash

SHA256 hash of the process image on disk of the parent process associated with the flow. From proprietary field 12341.

string
Native

Non-directional

DNS Suffix

Per-interface DNS suffix configured on the adapter associated with the flow for the endpoint. From proprietary field 12344.

string
Native

Non-directional

Destination Hostname

The FQDN (hostname) that resolved to the destination IP on the endpoint, e.g., “www.google.com”. From proprietary field 12338.

string
Native

Non-directional

Layer 4 Byte Count in

Total number of incoming bytes on the flow at Layer4 (Transport). Payload only, without L4 headers. From proprietary field 12346.

bytes counter

Non-directional

Layer 4 Byte Count Out

Total number of outgoing bytes on the flow at Layer4 (Transport). Payload only, without L4 headers. From proprietary field 12347.

bytes counter

Non-directional

Maximum packet length

Length of the largest packet observed for this flow.

integer
Native

Non-directional

Minimum packet length

Length of the smallest packet observed for this flow.

integer
Native

Non-directional

VPN identifier

VEdge VPN identifier.

integer
Native

Non-directional

Field 4322

Reserved for internal use.

integer
Native

Non-directional

Flow end reason

Reason for the flow termination (see IANA IPFIX Entities).

integer
Native

Non-directional

Post-NAT Address

The IPv4 or IPv6 source/destination address in the IP packet header, as modified by the firewall during network address translation after the packet traversed the device. Extracted from the following IPFIX fields:

• 225: Post-NAT Source IPv4 Address

• 281: Post-NAT Source IPv6 Address

• 226: Post-NAT Destination IPv4 Address

• 282: Post-NAT Destination IPv6 Address

ip-address
Native

Src/Dst

Post-NAT Transport Port

The source/destination port identifier in the transport header, as modified by the firewall during network address port translation after the packet traversed the device. Extracted from the following IPFIX fields:

• 227: Post-NAT Source Transport Port

• 228: Post-NAT Destination Transport Port

integer
Native

Src/Dst

Flow Flags

Extracted from IPFIX field 65.

integer
Native

Non-directional

Forwarding Status

Extracted from IPFIX field 89. For possible values, see IANA specification.

Integer/string
Native

Non-directional

Flow End Reason

Extracted from the IPFIX field 136. For possible values, see IANA specification.

integer
Native

Non-directional

Application Name

Extracted from IPFIX field 96.

string
Native

Non-directional

Application Category

Extracted from IPFIX field 372.

string
Native

Non-directional

Message

The first 64 chars of the PFE syslog message.

string
Native

Non-directional

Subtype

The subtype of the message, e.g., "FW" for firewall.

string
Native

Non-directional

Interface

The device interface on which the event occurred.

string
Native

Non-directional

Event

The nature of the event, e.g., "D" for dropped packets.

string
Native

Non-directional

Physical Interface

The router's index for the physical interface where the packets of the flow were sent/received.

integer
UDR

Src/Dst

Dot1q Vlan ID

The value of the 12-bit VLAN Identifier portion of the Tag Control Information field of an Ethernet frame.

integer
UDR

Src/Dst

Dot1q Customer Vlan ID

The value of the Customer VLAN identifier in the Customer VLAN Tag (C-TAG) Tag Control Information (TCI) field.

integer
UDR

Src/Dst

SAP

The value of the Service Access Point (SAP) field derived from the vendor MIB.

String
virtual

Src/Dst

Post-NAT Transport Port

The source/destination port identifier in the transport header, as modified by the firewall during network address port translation after the packet traversed the interface.

integer
Virtual

Src/Dst

Post-NAT Address

The IPv4 source/destination address in the IP packet header, as modified by the firewall during network address translation after the packet traversed the interface.

string
Virtual

Src/Dst

ICMP Type

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packet type. This is reported as: ICMP Type * 256 + ICMP code

integer
Virtual

Non-directional

Flow ID

An identifier of a flow that is unique within an observation domain. You can use this information element to distinguish between different flows if flow keys such as IP addresses and port numbers are not reported or are reported in separate records. The flowID corresponds to the session ID field in Traffic and Threat logs.

integer
Virtual

Non-directional

Application ID

The name of an application (up to 32 bytes).

string
Virtual

Non-directional

User ID

A username that User-ID identified. The name can be up to 64 bytes.

string
Virtual

Non-directional

Firewall Event

Indicates a firewall event:

• 0 = Ignore (invalid)—Not used.

• 1 = Flow created—The NetFlow data record is for a new flow.

• 2 = Flow deleted—The NetFlow data record is for the end of a flow.

• 3 = Flow denied—The NetFlow data record indicates a flow that firewall policy denied.

• 4 = Flow alert—Not used.

• 5 = Flow update—The NetFlow data record is sent for a long-lasting flow, which is a flow that lasts longer than the Active Timeout period configured in the NetFlow server profile.

integer
Virtual

Non-directional

Direction

The direction of the flow:

• 0 = ingress

• 1 = egress

integer
Virtual

Non-directional

VXLAN VTEP 0/1 IP Address

The VXLAN tunnel endpoint used to map tenants’ end devices to VXLAN segments and to perform VXLAN encapsulation and decapsulation.

string
UDR

Src/Dst

VXLAN 0/1 VNI

The IP address of an encapsulated packet inside a virtual network (VXLAN tunnel).

integer
UDR

Non-directional

Application name

The name of an application as identified by a Silver Peak VXOA appliance.

string
UDR

Non-directional

Business Intent Overlay

The Silver Peak Business Intent Overlay

UDR

Non-directional

Application Category

The category grouping of the applications identified by Silver Peak Edge Connect

UDR

Non-directional

From Zone

The firewall zone the traffic is coming from.

UDR

Src

To Zone

The firewall zone the traffic is going to.

UDR

Dst

Firewall Event

Indicates a firewall event:

• 0 = Ignore (invalid)—Not used.

• 1 = Flow created—The NetFlow data record is for a new flow.

• 2 = Flow deleted—The NetFlow data record is for the end of a flow.

• 3 = Flow denied—The NetFlow data record indicates a flow that firewall policy denied.

• 4 = Flow alert—Not used.

• 5 = Flow update—The NetFlow data record is sent for a long-lasting flow, which is a flow that lasts longer than the Active Timeout period configured in the NetFlow server profile.

integer
UDR

Non-directional

Biflow Direction

A description of the direction assignment method used to assign the biflow source and destination. This information element may be present in flow data record or applied to all flows exported from an exporting process or observation domain using IPFIX options. IANA field 239.

integer
Native

Non-directional

Flow ID

An identifier of a Flow that is unique within an Observation Domain. This information element can be used to distinguish between different Flows if Flow Keys such as IP addresses and port numbers are not reported or are reported in separate records. IANA field 148.

string
Native

Non-directional

Flow end reason

This information is extracted from the IPFIX field 136. Possible values of this field can be found on the IANA’s specification: IPFIX Flow End Reason.

integer

Native

Non-directional

Ingress VRF ID

A unique identifier of the VRF name where the packets of this flow are being received. This identifier is unique per metering process. This maps to the VMware SASE orchestrator. segments. A segment should be visualized and reported as a separated L3 domain within edge. IANA field 234.

string
Native

string
Native

Non-directional

Application Name

Application Name, IANA field 96.

string
Native

Non-directional

Application Category

An Attribute that provides a first level categorization for each application ID. IANA field 372.

string
Native

Non-directional

Destination UUI

Destination node UUID.

string
Native

Non-directional

VC Priority

This identifies the BizPolicy “Priority” classification applied. Unset should monitored to deduce a warning since it would only occur during overflow:

• 0 = Unset

• 1 = Control

• 2 = High

• 3 = Normal

• 4 - Low

integer

Native

Non-directional

VC Route Type

This identifies the path type out to internet the flow is taking. Unset should be monitored to deduce a warning since it would only occur during overflow:

• 0 = Unset

• 1 = Gateway

• 2 = Direct

• 3 = Backhaul (using Hub to Internet)

integer

Native

Non-directional

VC Link Policy

This value provides the type of link steering and remediation configured for this application under BizPolicy.

• 0 = NA

• 1 = Fixed

• 2 = Load balance

• 3 = Replicate

integer

Native

Non-directional

VC Traffic Type

This identifies the BizPolicy “Service Class” classification applied.

• 0 = Realtime

• 1 = Transactional

• 3 = Bulk

integer

Native

Non-directional

VC Flow Path

This identifies the type of “path” the flow is taking.

• 0 = Edge2CloudViaGateway (SaaS optimized)

• 1 = Edge2CloudDirect (SaaS not optimized)

• 2 = Edge2EdgeViaGateway (spoke2hub2 spoke via VCG)

• 3 = Edge2EdgeViaHub (spoke2hub2 spoke via PDC  Hub)

• 4 = Edge2EdgeDirect (Edge2Edge dynamic)

• 5 = Edge2DataCenterDirect (Edge2PDC using underlay routing)

• 6 = Edge2DataCenterViaGateway (Edge2PDC using  NVS)

• 7 = Edge2Backhaul (Edge2intern et using PDC Hub)

• 8 = Edge2Proxy

• 9 = Edge2OPG (PGW)

• 10 = Routed (path using underlay routing)

• 11 = Edge2CloudViaSecurityService (path using a CASB service to internet)

integer

Native

Non-directional

Business Policy ID

The business policy logical ID that this flow matches. This value is a UUID and must be mapped to a BizPolicy via Orchestrator API.

integer

Native

Non-directional

Next Hop UUID

Next hop UUID for this flow. This will be populated in case of overlay traffic. This value identifies the device that is in the path between source and destination in the SD-WAN overlay network (not underlay).

integer

Native

Non-directional

Post-NAT Address

The IPv4 or IPv6 source/destination address in the IP packet header, as modified by the firewall during network address translation after the packet traversed the device. This information is extracted from the following IPFIX fields:

• Post-NAT Source IPv4 Address (IPFIX field 225)

• Post-NAT Source IPv6 Address (IPFIX field 281)

• Post-NAT Destination IPv4 Address (IPFIX field 226)

• Post-NAT Destination IPv6 Address (IPFIX field 282)

ip-address

Native

Src/Dst

Responder Bytes

The total number of layer 4 bytes in a flow from the responder since the previous report. The responder is the device which replies to the initiator and remains the same for the life of the session.

bytes counter

Non-directional

Responder Packets

The total number of layer 4 packets in a flow from the responder since the previous report. The responder is the device which replies to the initiator and remains the same for the life of the session.

counter

Non-directional

Delta Flow Count

The conservative count of original flows contributing to this aggregated flow; may be distributed via any of the methods expressed by the valueDistributedMethod information element. IANA field 3.

counter

Non-directional

Replicated Packets Rx

Count of replicated packets received for the flow.

gauge

Non-directional

Replicated Packets Tx

Count of packets replicated for the flow.

gauge

Non-directional

Lost Packets Rx

Count of packets lost for the flow at the receive.

gauge

Non-directional

Retransmitted Packets Tx

Count of packets retransmitted for the flow.

gauge

Non-directional

TCP RTT ms

Maximum RTT observed for a TCP flow.

gauge

Non-directional

TCP Retransmits

Count of TCP packets retransmitted for the flow.

gauge

Non-directional

VXLAN VNI 0/1 MAC Address

The MAC address of an encapsulated packet inside a virtual network (VXLAN tunnel).

string
UDR

Src/Dst

VXLAN VNI 0/1 IP Address

The IP address of an encapsulated packet inside a virtual network (VXLAN tunnel).

string
UDR

Src/Dst

VXLAN VNI 0/1 Port

The Port of an encapsulated packet inside a virtual network (VXLAN tunnel).

integer
UDR

Src/Dst

IP TTL

The value of the IP TTL (time to live) field in the header of a VXLAN encapsulated packet.

integer
UDR

Non-directional

VXLAN VNI 0/1

A virtual network identifier (VNI) that identifies a specific virtual network in the data plane.

integer
UDR

Non-directional

VXLAN VNI 0/1 DSCP

A DSCP (differentiated services code point) value from the DS field in the header of a VXLAN encapsulated packet.

integer
UDR

Non-directional

VXLAN VNI 0/1 TCP Flags

TCP flags set in the header of a VXLAN encapsulated packet.

integer
UDR

Non-directional

VXLAN VNI 0/1 IP TTL

The value of the TTL (time to live) field in the IP header of a VXLAN encapsulated packet.

integer
UDR

Non-directional

VXLAN VNI 0/1 Protocol

The protocol of an encapsulated packet inside a virtual network (VXLAN tunnel).

integer
UDR

Non-directional