Yes, I have converted them to text but those logs are simply captured
packet headers over the local network. Now I just push them via that kafka
producer command under topic name of snort and they will be visible in
metron?

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 2:41 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> You need text logs. Here's an example of some properly formatted logs -
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/metron/master/metron-
> deployment/roles/sensor-stubs/files/snort.out
>
> Jon
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 01:34 Syed Hammad Tahir <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I have found the kafka-console-producer.sh but I need to know how to
>> make it read snort.log (tcp dump format) file. May be I am missing
>> something in the plain sight but it would be awsome if you tell me that.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 5:09 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On the 25th I said:
>>>
>>>      It should be in /usr/hdp/current/kafka-broker/bin/ or similar
>>> (from memory) on node1, assuming you are running full dev.
>>>
>>>      Jon
>>>
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 6:25 AM Syed Hammad Tahir <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> snort logs are in tcp dump format. I may have to convert them.
>>>>
>>>> bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test
>>>>
>>>> How to give file name or path in this command?
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 2:53 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If you have text snort logs you can use Apache nifi or the Kafka
>>>>> producer script as described in step 4 here[1] to push them to Metron's
>>>>> snort topic.  You may also want to look at this [2].
>>>>>
>>>>> 1: https://kafka.apache.org/quickstart
>>>>> 2: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38701179/kafka-
>>>>> console-producer-and-bash-script
>>>>>
>>>>> Jon
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017, 02:15 Syed Hammad Tahir <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have run snort independently on vagrant ssh and dumped the logs in
>>>>>> tcpdump format. Now I want to bring them to metron to play with them a 
>>>>>> bit.
>>>>>> Some of you already replied me with some solutions but thats lost in the
>>>>>> inbox somewhere and engulfed by the elasticsearhc issue that I had. 
>>>>>> Please
>>>>>> give me an easy to understand this solution for this problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards.
>>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Jon
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>
>> --
>
> Jon
>

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