Feed Utility command-line options

Feed Utility is a console application. You can invoke it from the command line.

Syntax

Feed Utility uses the following syntax in Linux:

./kl_feed_util [options]

Feed Utility uses the following syntax in Windows:

kl_feed_util.exe [options]

Options

The following options are available:

Syntax examples

The following command runs Feed Utility with default parameters. Feed Utility will download, unpack, and process feeds.

The following command runs Feed Utility in verbose mode with a configuration file named custom_configuration.conf, which is located in the same directory as the utility binary file.

The following command makes Feed Utility download and unpack feeds.

With the following command, Feed Utility processes the unpacked feeds. In this case, Feed Utility does not download the feeds; it only looks for the unpacked feed files and processes them.

The following command makes Feed Utility unpack and process feeds.

The following command makes Feed Utility download, unpack, and process the specified feed.

The following command specifies proxy connection parameters. These parameters are written to the configuration file.

The following command specifies proxy connection parameters for a proxy that does not require authentication. These parameters are written to the configuration file.

The following command specifies TAXII server connection parameters. These parameters are written to the configuration file.

The following command displays an average speed with which Feed Utility downloads the feeds from Kaspersky servers

Output example

The following example demonstrates a typical Feed Utility output. Feed Utility downloads demo feeds, and then unpacks and processes them.

2018-08-03 16:20:31.815 7f9b01c58740 INF KL Feed Utility, version: 1.1.91.0/Release

2018-08-03 16:20:31.815 7f9b01c58740 INF Built at 2018-08-02T15:06:50Z for Linux/x86_64

2018-08-03 16:20:31.815 7f9b01c58740 INF Running at Linux/x86_64 version #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2 (2017-04-30)

2018-08-03 16:20:31.815 7f9b01c58740 INF Current locale is en_US.UTF-8

2018-08-03 16:20:31.992 7f9b01c58740 INF feed #85(Demo_Botnet_CnC_URL_Data_Feed) version 2018-08-03T12:47:26.893 is available

2018-08-03 16:20:32.404 7f9b01c58740 INF update of feed #85(Demo_Botnet_CnC_URL_Data_Feed) is extracted to /opt/feed_util/bin/tmp/Demo_Botnet_CnC_URL_Data_Feed.json

2018-08-03 16:20:32.586 7f9b01c58740 INF feed #86(Demo_Malicious_Hash_Data_Feed) version 2018-08-03T12:44:53.82 is available

2018-08-03 16:20:32.992 7f9b01c58740 INF update of feed #86(Demo_Malicious_Hash_Data_Feed) is extracted to /opt/feed_util/bin/tmp/Demo_Malicious_Hash_Data_Feed.json

2018-08-03 16:20:33.172 7f9b01c58740 INF feed #87(Demo_IP_Reputation_Data_Feed) version 2018-08-03T12:57:57.017 is available

2018-08-03 16:20:33.406 7f9b01c58740 INF update of feed #87(Demo_IP_Reputation_Data_Feed) is extracted to /opt/feed_util/bin/tmp/Demo_IP_Reputation_Data_Feed.json

2018-08-03 16:20:34.414 7f9b01c58740 INF 3 of 3 feeds downloaded

2018-08-03 16:20:34.416 7f9afedb9700 INF start processing of feed #87(Demo_IP_Reputation_Data_Feed)

2018-08-03 16:20:34.416 7f9aff5ba700 INF start processing of feed #86(Demo_Malicious_Hash_Data_Feed)

2018-08-03 16:20:34.425 7f9b007ea700 INF start processing of feed #85(Demo_Botnet_CnC_URL_Data_Feed)

2018-08-03 16:20:34.855 7f9b01c58740 INF 3 of 3 feeds processed

2018-08-03 16:20:35.255 7478 INF Starting the speed test...

2018-08-03 16:20:35.874 7478 INF 500.00 MiB downloaded in 14399 ms, average speed is 34.72 MiB/s

2018-08-03 16:20:36.133 7478 INF 500.00 MiB downloaded in 14304 ms, average speed is 34.96 MiB/s

2018-08-03 16:20:36.421 7478 INF 500.00 MiB downloaded in 13402 ms, average speed is 37.31 MiB/s

2018-08-03 16:20:36.679 7478 INF Overall average speed was 35.66 MiB/s

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