GitHub user merrimanr opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/323
Snort logs are now sent to Kafka via kafka-console-producer
This PR attempts to solve the issue of snort data not flowing after an
extended amount of time by removing Flume as a dependency and simplifying the
process. Flume is replaced by a combination of the "tail" command and
kafka-console-producer, making it much easier to troubleshoot.
The implementation was inspired by the yaf sensor. The one significant
change is in the "metron-deployment/roles/snort/templates/snort-producer" init
script. The yaf init script stops the child processes by name with "killall"
which doesn't work in this case because "snort-producer" is not in the first
"tail" command. Instead the process group id is retrieved in line 64 and
passed to the "kill" command in line 67.
This has been tested in quick-dev, including managing the sensor through
Monit. I searched for other Flume dependencies but could not find any,
therefore Flume was removed completely.
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/merrimanr/incubator-metron METRON-514
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/323.patch
To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:
This closes #323
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commit 5515562f3a8e9e9f292c614c7542acdb91c59e58
Author: rmerriman <rmerri...@hortonworks.com>
Date: 2016-10-25T15:41:01Z
Snort logs are now sent to Kafka via kafka-console-producer
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