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Interacting via Unix Socket
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===========================
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Introduction
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------------
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Suricata can listen to a unix socket and accept commands from the user. The
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exchange protocol is JSON-based and the format of the message is generic.
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An example script called ``suricatasc`` is provided in the source and installed
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automatically when installing/updating Suricata.
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The unix socket is always enabled by default.
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You'll need to have JSON support in Python:
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* python-simplejson - simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python
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Debian/Ubuntu::
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apt-get install python-simplejson
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The creation of the socket is managed by setting enabled to 'yes' or 'auto'
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under unix-command in Suricata YAML configuration file: ::
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unix-command:
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enabled: yes
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#filename: custom.socket # use this to specify an alternate file
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The ``filename`` variable can be used to set an alternate socket
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filename. The filename is always relative to the local state base
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directory.
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Clients are implemented for some programming languages and can be used as code
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example to write custom scripts:
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* Python: https://github.com/OISF/suricata/blob/master/python/suricata/sc/suricatasc.py (provided with Suricata and used in this document)
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* Perl: https://github.com/aflab/suricatac (a simple Perl client with interactive mode)
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* C: https://github.com/regit/SuricataC (a Unix socket mode client in C without interactive mode)
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.. _standard-unix-socket-commands:
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Commands in standard running mode
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---------------------------------
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You may need to install ``suricatasc`` if you have not done so, running the following command from python/suricatasc
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::
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sudo python setup.py install
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The set of existing commands is the following:
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* command-list: list available commands
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* shutdown: shutdown Suricata
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* iface-list: list interfaces where Suricata is sniffing packets
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* iface-stat: list statistics for an interface
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* help: alias of command-list
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* version: display Suricata's version
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* uptime: display Suricata's uptime
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* running-mode: display running mode (workers, autofp, simple)
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* capture-mode: display capture system used
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* conf-get: get configuration item (see example below)
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* dump-counters: dump Suricata's performance counters
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* reopen-log-files: reopen log files (to be run after external log rotation)
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* ruleset-reload-rules: reload ruleset and wait for completion
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* ruleset-reload-nonblocking: reload ruleset and proceed without waiting
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* ruleset-reload-time: return time of last reload
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* ruleset-stats: display the number of rules loaded and failed
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* ruleset-failed-rules: display the list of failed rules
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* memcap-set: update memcap value of the specified item
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* memcap-show: show memcap value of the specified item
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* memcap-list: list all memcap values available
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* reload-rules: alias of ruleset-reload-rules
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* register-tenant-handler: register a tenant handler with the specified mapping
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* unregister-tenant-handler: unregister a tenant handler with the specified mapping
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* register-tenant: register tenant with a particular ID and filename
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* unregister-tenant: unregister tenant with a particular ID
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* reload-tenant: reload a tenant with specified ID and filename
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* add-hostbit: add hostbit on a host IP with a particular bit name and time of expiry
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* remove-hostbit: remove hostbit on a host IP with specified bit name
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* list-hostbit: list hostbit for a particular host IP
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You can access these commands with the provided example ``suricatasc`` script.
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A typical session with ``suricatasc`` looks like:
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::
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# suricatasc
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Command list: shutdown, command-list, help, version, uptime, running-mode, capture-mode, conf-get, dump-counters, iface-stat, iface-list, quit
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>>> iface-list
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Success: {'count': 2, 'ifaces': ['eth0', 'eth1']}
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>>> iface-stat eth0
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Success: {'pkts': 378, 'drop': 0, 'invalid-checksums': 0}
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>>> conf-get unix-command.enabled
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Success:
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"yes"
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Commands on the cmd prompt
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--------------------------
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You can use ``suricatasc`` directly on the command prompt:
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::
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root@debian64:~# suricatasc -c version
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{'message': '5.0.3 RELEASE', 'return': 'OK'}
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root@debian64:~#
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root@debian64:~# suricatasc -c uptime
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{'message': 35264, 'return': 'OK'}
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root@debian64:~#
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**NOTE:**
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You need to quote commands with more than one argument:
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::
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root@debian64:~# suricatasc -c "iface-stat eth0"
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{'message': {'pkts': 5110429, 'drop': 0, 'invalid-checksums': 0}, 'return': 'OK'}
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root@debian64:~#
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PCAP processing mode
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--------------------
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This mode is one of main motivations behind this code. The idea is to
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be able to provide different pcap files to Suricata without
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having to restart Suricata for each file. This saves time since
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you don't need to wait for the signature engine to initialize.
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To use this mode, start Suricata with your preferred configuration YAML file and
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provide the option ``--unix-socket`` as argument::
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suricata -c /etc/suricata-full-sigs.yaml --unix-socket
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It is also possible to specify the socket filename as an argument::
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suricata --unix-socket=custom.socket
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In this last case, you will need to provide the complete path to the
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socket to ``suricatasc``. To do so, you need to pass the filename as
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first argument of ``suricatasc``: ::
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suricatasc custom.socket
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Once Suricata is started, you can use ``suricatasc`` to connect to the
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command socket and provide different pcap files: ::
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root@tiger:~# suricatasc
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>>> pcap-file /home/benches/file1.pcap /tmp/file1
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Success: Successfully added file to list
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>>> pcap-file /home/benches/file2.pcap /tmp/file2
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Success: Successfully added file to list
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>>> pcap-file-continuous /home/pcaps /tmp/dirout
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Success: Successfully added file to list
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You can add multiple files without waiting for each to be processed; they will be
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sequentially processed and the generated log/alert files will be put
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into the directory specified as second argument of the pcap-file
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command. You need to provide an absolute path to the files and directory
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as Suricata doesn't know from where the script has been run. If you pass
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a directory instead of a file, all files in the directory will be processed. If
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using ``pcap-file-continuous`` and passing in a directory, the directory will
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be monitored for new files being added until you use ``pcap-interrupt`` or
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delete/move the directory.
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To display how many files are waiting to get processed, you can do: ::
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>>> pcap-file-number
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Success: 3
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To display the list of queued files, do: ::
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>>> pcap-file-list
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Success: {'count': 2, 'files': ['/home/benches/file1.pcap', '/home/benches/file2.pcap']}
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To display current processed file: ::
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>>> pcap-current
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Success:
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"/tmp/test.pcap"
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When passing in a directory, you can see last processed time (modified time of last file) in milliseconds since epoch:
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::
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>>> pcap-last-processed
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Success:
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1509138964000
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To interrupt directory processing which terminates the current state:
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::
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>>> pcap-interrupt
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Success:
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"Interrupted"
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Build your own client
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---------------------
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The protocol is documented in the following page
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https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/Unix_Socket#Protocol
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The following session show what is sent (SND) and received (RCV) by
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the server. Initial negotiation is the following: ::
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# suricatasc
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SND: {"version": "0.1"}
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RCV: {"return": "OK"}
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Once this is done, commands can be issued: ::
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>>> iface-list
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SND: {"command": "iface-list"}
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RCV: {"message": {"count": 1, "ifaces": ["wlan0"]}, "return": "OK"}
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Success: {'count': 1, 'ifaces': ['wlan0']}
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>>> iface-stat wlan0
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SND: {"command": "iface-stat", "arguments": {"iface": "wlan0"}}
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RCV: {"message": {"pkts": 41508, "drop": 0, "invalid-checksums": 0}, "return": "OK"}
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Success: {'pkts': 41508, 'drop': 0, 'invalid-checksums': 0}
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In pcap-file mode, this gives: ::
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>>> pcap-file /home/eric/git/oisf/benches/sandnet.pcap /tmp/bench
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SND: {"command": "pcap-file", "arguments": {"output-dir": "/tmp/bench", "filename": "/home/eric/git/oisf/benches/sandnet.pcap"}}
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RCV: {"message": "Successfully added file to list", "return": "OK"}
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Success: Successfully added file to list
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>>> pcap-file-number
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SND: {"command": "pcap-file-number"}
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RCV: {"message": 1, "return": "OK"}
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>>> pcap-file-list
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SND: {"command": "pcap-file-list"}
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RCV: {"message": {"count": 1, "files": ["/home/eric/git/oisf/benches/sandnet.pcap"]}, "return": "OK"}
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Success: {'count': 1, 'files': ['/home/eric/git/oisf/benches/sandnet.pcap']}
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>>> pcap-file-continuous /home/eric/git/oisf/benches /tmp/bench 0 true
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SND: {"command": "pcap-file", "arguments": {"output-dir": "/tmp/bench", "filename": "/home/eric/git/oisf/benches/sandnet.pcap", "tenant": 0, "delete-when-done": true}}
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RCV: {"message": "Successfully added file to list", "return": "OK"}
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Success: Successfully added file to list
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There is one thing to be careful about: a Suricata message is sent in
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multiple send operations. This result in possible incomplete read on
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client side. The worse workaround is to sleep a bit before trying a
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recv call. An other solution is to use non blocking socket and retry a
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recv if the previous one has failed.
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Pcap-file json format is:
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::
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{
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"command": "pcap-file",
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"arguments": {
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"output-dir": "path to output dir",
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"filename": "path to file or directory to run",
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"tenant": 0,
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"continuous": false,
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"delete-when-done": false
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}
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}
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`output-dir` and `filename` are required. `tenant` is optional and should be a
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number, indicating which tenant the file or directory should run under. `continuous`
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is optional and should be true/false, indicating that file or directory should be
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run until `pcap-interrupt` is sent or ctrl-c is invoked. `delete-when-done` is
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optional and should be true/false, indicating that the file or files under the
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directory specified by `filename` should be deleted when processing is complete.
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`delete-when-done` defaults to false, indicating files will be kept after
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processing.
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