CoralReef has had an HTML report generator since 3.1. The present
generator is the Perl script
t2_report;
CAIDA supporters
also have access to the enhanced version,
t2_report++.
It supports graph generation using either the gd package or commercial
Java software. It can take advantage of
ASFinder and
NetGeo (both CAIDA
packages) to provide AS and country information about the traffic.
In addition, It is designed to work with
RRDtool (also
available from CAIDA) to produce time series plots.
The present report generator can be easily customized since the front end is written in Perl. Early versions were big and slow because they were all Perl, but the current version has an efficient C backend.
There is no mechanism to convert your old tools to work with the new CoralReef file format, nor to convert new file formats to old formats. We encourage you to convert your old tools to use the new libcoral C API or Coral.pm Perl API. Applications written with these APIs can read any coral source including the old NLANR format as well as old, current, and future versions of the CoralReef file format, DAG files, pcap files, live system network interfaces, and several types of live monitoring devices.
The file format is specified on this web page. We encourage you to use libcoral or Coral.pm as the basis for any analysis program which you intend to write to remain compatible with any future changes to the CoralReef file format.
Documentation included with CoralReef includes a list of applications and how to use them. This documentation can also be found on the CoralReef web site.