- Duplicate notices are discovered with the new Notice::Info
field $identifier. It's a string that is left up to the
notice implementor to define which would indicate a
fundamentally duplicate notice. The field is optional and
if it's not included it's not possible for notice
suppression to take place.
- Duplicate notices are suppressed by default for the interval
defined by the Notice::default_suppression_interval variable
(1 hour by default).
- A new notice action was defined ACTION_NO_SUPPRESS to prevent
suppression for a specific notice instance. A convenience set
named not_suppressed_types was also created to not suppress
entire notice types.
- A new field was added to the PolicyItem type to modify the length
of time a notice should be suppressed if the predicate matches.
The field is named $suppress_for. This name makes the code more
readable like this: $suppress_for = 1day
- New events were created to give visibility into the notice
framework's suppression activity.
- event Notice::begin_suppression(n: Notice::Info)
- event Notice::suppressed(n: Notice::Info)
- event Notice::end_suppression(n: Notice::Info)
- The suppression.bro script doesn't have a baseline because
it is causing a segfault in Bro. This one test is the
reason that this is being integrated into a branch instead
of master.
