[Bro] Bro hanging on some sensors

Kellogg, Brian D (OLN) bkellogg at dresser-rand.com
Wed Jun 11 14:25:51 PDT 2014


I have several SecurityOnion sensors and most are working ok.  There are a couple that I see the below problem on with Bro.

The /nsm/bro/spool/manager/communication.log file shows the below in it on each of the problem sensors:
    1402520922.886012   manager parent  -       -       -       info    warning: cannot increase SO_SNDBUF socket buffer size from 16384K (1024K was requested)
    1402520922.886012   manager parent  -       -       -       info    warning: cannot increase SO_RCVBUF socket buffer size from 16384K (1024K was requested)
    1402520922.886012   manager parent  -       -       -       info    warning: cannot increase SO_SNDBUF socket buffer size from 16384K (1024K was requested)
    1402520922.886012   manager parent  -       -       -       info    warning: cannot increase SO_RCVBUF socket buffer size from 16384K (1024K was requested)
    1402520922.886012   manager parent  -       -       -       info    communication started, parent pid is 3646, child pid is 3660

I only ever see these files created in the Bro log working directory:
    communication.log
    loaded_scripts.log
    eporter.log
    stderr.log
    stdout.log

Most of the sensors are configured exactly the same both software and hardware wise; so I'm not seeing a correlation there as yet.  I've tried rebooting and using broctl commands and so far no resolution.  Many time "broctl check" will hang.  I have all the latest patches on SO installed.  Any help would be appreciated.

The only major change I've made in the last month is to add a few Intel feeds.


Thanks,
Brian





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