[Bro] Bro problem - no software.log written

Mike Sconzo sconzo at visiblerisk.com
Tue Feb 25 00:13:54 PST 2014


Figured it'd have side effects, didn't really matter for my use cases.
However, the ALL_HOSTS setting is useful, and I didn't know that.

Thanks!

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Seth Hall <seth at icir.org> wrote:
>
> On Feb 22, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Mike Sconzo <sconzo at visiblerisk.com> wrote:
>
>> Make sure to set your Sites::local_net variable. If you set it to
>> 0.0.0.0/0 you should get an entry in software.log for every connection
>> that bro can find qualifying entries for.
>
>
> That will have side effects in other areas of Bro.  If you want to log all software seen, it's probably better to use...
>
> redef Software::asset_tracking = ALL_HOSTS;
>
> Keep in mind though that this will have consequences in memory because it will store all of the seen software in memory.
>
>   .Seth
>
> --
> Seth Hall
> International Computer Science Institute
> (Bro) because everyone has a network
> http://www.bro.org/
>



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