Ok, Now I get it. Now should I install snort in vagrant ssh in the normal
way snort is usually install on a linux distro or do I need to run some
special commands again?

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Nick Allen <[email protected]> wrote:

> In the Full Dev environment, Snort is not installed.  We install "Sensor
> Stubs" which is just a mechanism that continually replays canned telemetry
> logs repetitively to mimic real sensors.  We have to do this because of
> resource constraints when running all of Metron on a single VM.  See the
> following for more information.
>
> https://github.com/apache/metron/tree/master/metron-
> deployment/roles/sensor-stubs
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Syed Hammad Tahir <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> yes,, but when i do snort -v in vagrant ssh console it says snort isnt
>> installed where as it can be seen working in metron. Due to that reason I
>> am confused because James Sirota said to install snort.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Nick Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> From Metron's perspective, Snort is just another sensor.  Snort is
>>> installed, managed and executed completely independent of Metron itself. As
>>> with any sensor, you are responsible for getting the telemetry produced by
>>> Snort into Kafka.  Metron can then consume that telemetry from Kafka and do
>>> wonderful things with it. :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 4:00 AM, Syed Hammad Tahir <[email protected]
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> And I am sorry about one confusion but isnt snort builtin into the
>>>> metron framework? If so then cant we access that snort and do the tasks you
>>>> mentioned earlier?
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Syed Hammad Tahir <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the support. Can it be performed both on dumped log and
>>>>> real time data?
>>>>> Regards.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:02 AM, James Sirota <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> What I mean is that you should install snort, load the appropriate
>>>>>> Snort rules for your use case, set Snort to log to a directory, and send
>>>>>> traffic to the network interface where Snort is listening. That will
>>>>>> produce Snort log files. Then you can push the contents of Snort logs
>>>>>> either to Kafka using NiFi (preferred) or using Kafka utilities such as
>>>>>> command line producer. This should be pushed to a Kafka topic called 
>>>>>> Snort
>>>>>> where each message is a log line of the Snort file. Does that make sense?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> James
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 11.10.2017, 23:08, "Syed Hammad Tahir" <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You mean that I must start snort from terminal by doing snort -v and
>>>>>> then push it to kafka topic? I need to start snort in packet capture 
>>>>>> mode.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:52 PM, James Sirota <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, you can use Snort. Metron can consume Snort telemetries out of
>>>>>> the box. You have to setup Snort on your own and push the output into a
>>>>>> kafka topic (most likely using NiFi). From there on you can use the 
>>>>>> output
>>>>>> of Snort in Metron.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 10.10.2017, 00:48, "Syed Hammad Tahir" <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can I use snort in packet capture mode with metron? By default it
>>>>>> works in IDS mode only.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -------------------
>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> James Sirota
>>>>>> PMC- Apache Metron
>>>>>> jsirota AT apache DOT org
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -------------------
>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> James Sirota
>>>>>> PMC- Apache Metron
>>>>>> jsirota AT apache DOT org
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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