[Bro] Bro hanging on some sensors

Doug Burks doug.burks at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 02:23:41 PDT 2014


Hi Brian,

How exactly did you add your Intel feeds?

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Kellogg, Brian D (OLN)
<bkellogg at dresser-rand.com> wrote:
> 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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