[Bro] Bro's software log

Azoff, Justin S jazoff at illinois.edu
Tue Jan 12 11:58:21 PST 2016


You're going to laugh... That's what bro-cut is for :-)


    # zcat software.log.gz | bro-cut host unparsed_version


Regular cut kind of works too, but bro-cut is faster and easier to use:

    # zcat software.log.gz | egrep -v "^#" | cut -f 2,11

-- 
- Justin Azoff

> On Jan 12, 2016, at 2:32 PM, James Lay <jlay at slave-tothe-box.net> wrote:
> 
> I LOVE the software log.  Legit.  It's awesome.  I'm trying to create a report of sorts, with sed and awk, and for the life of me I'm having a tough time.  Here's what I got so far:
> 
> zcat software.log.gz | bro-cut -d | sed -e 's/<tab character here, ie ctrl-v, tab>/-/g' -e 's/\-\-\-[A-Z]\{3,5\}::/ /' -e 's/^.*0000-//'
> 
> This get me kinda close, but not close enough...here's the raw entry:
>  
> 2016-01-01T14:57:02+0000        x.x.x.x  -       HTTP::BROWSER   Windows-Update-Agent    7       9       9600    18145   Client  Windows-Update-Agent/7.9.9600.18145 Client-Protocol/1.21
> 
> What' I'm really hoping for is this:
> x.x.x.x Windows-Update-Agent/7.9.9600.18145 Client-Protocol/1.21
>  
> Just the IP address, and the last bit...the entire unparsed_version field.  Anyone got a clever script to do something like this?  Thank you.
>  
> James
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