Reporting
- Use json alert data for 10x speed improvement in report generation
- Include both gid and sid, plus packet direction in report output
- Add by-date incident filtering
- Add verbose mode which displays actual rules triggered and their source
- Attempt to look up host names from IPs in verbose mode
- Clean up display of port number involved in incidents
Rules
- Complete downloader for subscription rules using oinkcode (only tested
with snort.org's "free" tier subscription)
- Auto-detect multiple rules files and include them in lua 'ips.rules'
- Add '--backup' option to copy out current rules before installing new
- Add '--persistent' option to 'snort-rules', storing in persistent location
CLI interface
- Completely rework command line option parsing in all user scripts
- Allow options and commands to be in any order on command line
- Add long-form names for all options ('--help' for '-h' and so on)
- Detect errors properly in options, enhance help pages
Bug fixes
- Use 'mkdir -p' on all directory creation
- Use proper tmp directory from 'snort.snort.temp_dir' everywhere
Signed-off-by: Eric Fahlgren <ericfahlgren@gmail.com>
Allow use of rules as-defined, and don't override their actions. This
is generally the best way to use the ruleset, and overriding their
actions should only be undertaken when you fully understand how it
affects their use.
Signed-off-by: Eric Fahlgren <ericfahlgren@gmail.com>
- Delete legacy configuration files homenet.lua and local.lua
- Add snort config 'include' to allow user customizations in the lua
- Enhance 'check' to test generated nftables file
- Suppress inclusion of rules file when doing silent config check
- Suppress warnings on configuration check unless '-v'erbose
- Replace text logging with json logging to reduce footprint and make reports easier
- Fix some typos in the snort.uc template
- Fix up some error messages suggesting solutions
Signed-off-by: Eric Fahlgren <ericfahlgren@gmail.com>
- Add many options to config file.
- Move rules and generated snort.lua to /tmp.
- Add script for downloading rules.
- Add preliminary reporting capabilites.
Signed-off-by: Eric Fahlgren <ericfahlgren@gmail.com>
