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Collect expert.message from tshark

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Is there some way to extract expert.message from a pcap using tshark?

I'd like to do something like this in an automated script to get the number of packets with an expert message of severity Warn:

tshark -R "expert.severity eq Warn" -r eth1.pcap | wc -l

That just errs:

tshark: Neither "expert.severity" nor "Warn" are field or protocol names.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!

asked 20 Jan '12, 14:01

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edited 20 Jan '12, 15:10

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What version of Wireshark are you using? And what OS? Your command worked for me (no errors) in SVN 40615, Windows 7 and OSX Lion.

(20 Jan '12, 15:12) helloworld
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Even if that filter had worked, it would tell you the number of frames that had at least one warning of a given severity, rather than the actual number of expert items reported.

Current SVN tshark has "-z expert". "-z expert,error" would only show you the errors, whereas "-z expert,warn" would give you expert errors + warnings. Here is an example and the resulting output. See the total count for a given severity in the first line of output.

./tshark -z expert,warn -r ../captures/logfile_norlc.out_00000_20120120095148.split -q

Errors (10026)

Frequency Group Protocol Summary 1 Sequence DCT2000 >> ERR ALL: Not processing DL doorbell as already 20259 us old: (deadline is 8000) 1 Sequence DCT2000 >> ERR ALL: Took longer than 8000 usecs to process DL doorbell (20346) 1 Sequence DCT2000 >> ERR MAC: Unexpected UL-Grant buffer number; expected 0, got 1 8323 Sequence MAC-LTE UE 1: SR results in neither a grant nor a failure indication 1586 Malformed MAC-LTE DL Frame has CRC error problem (Duplicate_nonzero_rv) 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats Duplicate seen (2) 73 Malformed MAC-LTE DL Frame has CRC error problem (Failed) 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats CRC errors seen (7) 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats Duplicate seen (155) 29 Malformed MAC-LTE DL Frame has CRC error problem (High Code Rate) 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats CRC errors seen (20) 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats CRC errors seen (2) 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats Duplicate seen (404) 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats CRC errors seen (17) 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats CRC errors seen (4) 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats Duplicate seen (446) 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats CRC errors seen (19) 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats CRC errors seen (16) 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats Duplicate seen (440)

Warns (4)

Frequency Group Protocol Summary 1 Malformed MAC-LTE Should not see more than 2 padding subheaders in one frame 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats Retx seen (131072) 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats Retx seen (262144) 1 Sequence DCT2000-CStats Retx seen (1048576)

(20 Jan '12, 18:06) MartinM

Thanks Gents. Looks like an update will do the trick.

(20 Jan '12, 20:05) alienrobotninja

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Not up to date.

answered 20 Jan '12, 20:09

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