snort

THIS ROLE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AND IS NOT MAINTAINED.

Install and configure snort on your system.

GitHub	GitLab	Quality	Downloads	Version

Example Playbook

This example is taken from molecule/resources/converge.yml and is tested on each push, pull request and release.

---
- name: Converge
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.snort

The machine needs to be prepared in CI this is done using molecule/resources/prepare.yml:

---
- name: Prepare
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  become: yes

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.bootstrap
    - role: robertdebock.epel

Also see a full explanation and example on how to use these roles.

Role Variables

These variables are set in defaults/main.yml:

---
# defaults file for snort

snort_version: 2.9.17

Requirements

• pip packages listed in requirements.txt.

Status of requirements

The following roles are used to prepare a system. You may choose to prepare your system in another way, I have tested these roles as well.

Requirement	GitHub	GitLab
robertdebock.bootstrap
robertdebock.epel

Context

This role is a part of many compatible roles. Have a look at the documentation of these roles for further information.

Here is an overview of related roles:

Compatibility

This role has been tested on these container images:

container	tags
el	8
fedora	32

The minimum version of Ansible required is 2.10, tests have been done to:

• The previous version.
• The current version.
• The development version.

Exceptions

Some variarations of the build matrix do not work. These are the variations and reasons why the build won't work:

variation	reason
Alpine	Could not allocate space to store a copy of the filter string
Archlinux	fatal error: rpc/rpc.h: No such file or directory
CentOS latest	ERROR! Libpcap library version >= 1.0.0 not found.
fedora:rawhide	./sf_ip.h:231:31: warning: taking address of packed member of struct _sfaddr may result in an unaligned pointer value [-Waddress-of-packed-member]

Included version(s)

This role refers to a version released by Snort. Check the released version(s) here:

• snort.

This version reference means a role may get outdated. Monthly tests occur to see if bit-rot occured. If you however find a problem, please create an issue, I'll get on it as soon as possible. If you find issues, please register them in GitHub

License

Apache-2.0

Author Information

Robert de Bock

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