- It's ok to always load the framework. If you don't
specifiy the CLUSTER_NODE environment variable it doesn't
ultimately do anything.
- The $CLUSTER_NODE variable causes the framework to try and
load a script named cluster-layout.bro which must be located
somewhere in your $BROPATH. The value of the $CLUSTER_NODE
variable is a count that indicates a node in the Cluster::nodes
variable that is set in the cluster-layout.bro script.
- The Cluster::nodes variable is a flat configuration because
it's assumed that it would be automatically generated by a
utility such as BroControl. This will facilitate the tiered or
"deep" clustering that is coming.
* origin/topic/robin/reporting:
Syslog BiF now goes through the reporter as well.
Avoiding infinite loops when an error message handlers triggers errors itself.
Renaming the Logger to Reporter.
Overhauling the internal reporting of messages to the user.
Updating a bunch of tests/baselines as well.
Conflicts:
aux/broccoli
policy.old/alarm.bro
policy/all.bro
policy/bro.init
policy/frameworks/notice/weird.bro
policy/notice.bro
src/SSL-binpac.cc
src/bro.bif
src/main.cc
- Fixed a pretty major eternal looping bug in the SSL analyzer and
a few other parsing problems.
- New core scripts and log for SSL connection analysis.
- New known-certs script for logging certificate assets.
The Logger class is now in charge of reporting all errors, warnings,
informational messages, weirds, and syslogs. All other components
route their messages through the global bro_logger singleton.
The Logger class comes with these reporting methods:
void Message(const char* fmt, ...);
void Warning(const char* fmt, ...);
void Error(const char* fmt, ...);
void FatalError(const char* fmt, ...); // Terminate Bro.
void Weird(const char* name);
[ .. some more Weird() variants ... ]
void Syslog(const char* fmt, ...);
void InternalWarning(const char* fmt, ...);
void InternalError(const char* fmt, ...); // Terminates Bro.
See Logger.h for more information on these.
Generally, the reporting now works as follows:
- All non-fatal message are reported in one of two ways:
(1) At startup (i.e., before we start processing packets),
they are logged to stderr.
(2) During processing, they turn into events:
event log_message%(msg: string, location: string%);
event log_warning%(msg: string, location: string%);
event log_error%(msg: string, location: string%);
The script level can then handle them as desired.
If we don't have an event handler, we fall back to
reporting on stderr.
- All fatal errors are logged to stderr and Bro terminates
immediately.
- Syslog(msg) directly syslogs, but doesn't do anything else.
The three main types of messages can also be generated on the
scripting layer via new Log::* bifs:
Log::error(msg: string);
Log::warning(msg: string);
Log::message(msg: string);
These pass through the bro_logger as well and thus are handled in the
same way. Their output includes location information.
More changes:
- Removed the alarm statement and the alarm_hook event.
- Adapted lots of locations to use the bro_logger, including some
of the messages that were previously either just written to
stdout, or even funneled through the alarm mechanism.
- No distinction anymore between Error() and RunTime(). There's
now only one class of errors; the line was quite blurred already
anyway.
- util.h: all the error()/warn()/message()/run_time()/pinpoint()
functions are gone. Use the bro_logger instead now.
- Script errors are formatted a bit differently due to the
changes. What I've seen so far looks ok to me, but let me know
if there's something odd.
Notes:
- The default handlers for the new log_* events are just dummy
implementations for now since we need to integrate all this into
the new scripts anyway.
- I'm not too happy with the names of the Logger class and its
instance bro_logger. We now have a LogMgr as well, which makes
this all a bit confusing. But I didn't have a good idea for
better names so I stuck with them for now.
Perhaps we should merge Logger and LogMgr?
- Defaults for all built-in asset tracking changed to LOCAL_HOSTS
- Added a tuning script for changing asset tracking
to ALL_HOSTS in all of the core scripts that do
asset tracking.
- Default Notice::policy files notices instead of alarming on them.
- Moved KnownHosts::Info back to export section because
the log_known_hosts event can't be defined in the
export section without it.
- Moved the Malware Hash Registry detection out of
the core HTTP protocol scripts and added it to the
all.bro script.
- The all.bro script loads tuning/defaults which is
commonly applied tuning.
- Other less common tuning can be placed in the tuning/
directory directly.
Removing everything related to trace rewriting.
(I wasn't too careful in ensuring that I catch everything in the
scripts; Seth is working on those anyway.)
(Merging by cherry-picking the corresponding commit, as the branch was
accidentally made off of the logging stuff).
