This module solves the problem of extracing IP addresses and Cisco / Arista interface names from a text. It was initially written to be used for parsing syslog files, but can be used anywhere such need exists.

Installation

npm install log-tokenizer

Usage

Functionality of this module has been split into three functions

Convert string into tokens

tokenizer.tokenize(txt, extractors)

Params

• txt - (Required) raw string that is to be parsed
• extractors - (Optional) - array of functions that perform extraction and return list of objects describing extracted fields. If not provided, by default extractIPs and extractInterfaces are used. If you want to write your own method, have a look at one of those functions.

Returns

Returns an array of objects describing consecutive fields. Each object contains at least following attributes:

• index - start position in input string
• len - length of extracted field
• type - set to appropriate type of the extraction. All parts of the string that have not been matched by extractors have this parameter set to 'text'

Example

> tokenizer.tokenize("2015-03-21 Android 1.1.3.3 connected through Fa1/13 to host 5.5.5.5, interface Gi3/1")
[
   {
      "type":"text",
      "txt":"2015-03-21 Android ",
      "len":19,
      "index":0
   },
   {
      "index":19,
      "len":7,
      "txt":"1.1.3.3",
      "type":"ipaddress"
   },
   {
      "type":"text",
      "txt":" connected through ",
      "len":19,
      "index":26
   },
   {
      "index":45,
      "len":6,
      "txt":"Fa1/13",
      "type":"interface"
   },
   {
      "type":"text",
      "txt":" to host ",
      "len":9,
      "index":51
   },
   {
      "index":60,
      "len":7,
      "txt":"5.5.5.5",
      "type":"ipaddress"
   },
   {
      "type":"text",
      "txt":", interface ",
      "len":12,
      "index":67
   },
   {
      "index":79,
      "len":5,
      "txt":"Gi3/1",
      "type":"interface"
   }
]
>

Extract list of Cisco/Arista interface names

tokenizer.extractInterfaces(txt)

Params

• txt - (Required) - string to be parsed

Returns

Array with list of extracted IP address objects. Each object has following attributes:

• index - start position in input string
• len - length of extracted field
• type - set to 'interface'

Example

> tokenizer.extractInterfaces('2014-03-12 host.com Interface Ethernet1/4 went down')
[ { index: 30,
    len: 11,
    txt: 'Ethernet1/4',
    type: 'interface' } ]
>

Extract IP addresses

tokenizer.extractIPs(txt)

Params

• txt - (Required) - string to be parsed

Returns

Array with list of extracted IP address objects. Each object has following attributes:

• index - start position in input string
• len - length of extracted field
• type - set to 'ipaddress'

Example

> tokenizer.extractIPs("this is a test text with IP address of 4.4.4.4 and some other irrelevant SNMP OID .1.2.3.4.5.6")
[{"index":39,"len":7,"txt":"4.4.4.4","type":"ipaddress"}]