conntrack-logger

What is this?

A very basic tool for collecting new conntrack entries and storing them in the database.

As it was written for solving private particular task, lot of stuff is hardcoded and non-configurable, sorry.

That was my first expirience with Go, so don't expect it to be coded in a good way.

Configuring

conntrack-logger is configured with a json file you specify with the -config flag:

conntrack-logger -config yourstuff.json

Sample config file is ditributed with source code, see conntrack-logger.cfg.

It it almost self descriptive, as only database connection details are configured.

• The CommitCount parameter controls size of a single batch.

• The Workers parameter controls how many processing goroutines will be running.

• The Mark parameter will enable event filtering on their CONNMARK value. It is optional and when it is not set or set to 0, all events will be processed.

Building it

1. Install go

2. Install "lib/pq" go get -u github.com/lib/pq

3. Install libnetfilter-conntrack-dev and libnfnetlink-dev

4. Compile conntrack-logger

    git clone git://github.com/akashihi/conntrack-logger.git
    cd conntrack-logger
    go build .
   

Packaging it (optional)

To build the packages, you will need ruby and fpm installed.

gem install fpm

Now you can build a package:

make deb

Package installs to /usr/bin.

You'll need to install libnetfilter-conntrack and libnfnetlink manually before using it.

Running it

Generally:

conntrack-logger -config conntrack-logger.cfg

Option '-config' can be omited, defaul config file location is '/etc/conntrack-logger.cfg'.

You will also need to install PostgreSQL server, create database, user and table. Table definition is in database.sql file.

License

See LICENSE file.

Copyright 2015 Denis V Chapligin akashihi@gmail.com