dnsdist-console 0.5.0

Python client for dnsdist console

Python client for dnsdist console

Author	Denis Machard [e-mail]
License	MIT
PyPI	https://pypi.org/project/dnsdist_console/

This is a Python 3 client for the dnsdist console

Table of contents

• Installation
• Generate key
• Handshake
• Run command
• Get statistics
• Display dashboard

Installation

pip install dnsdist_console

Generate key

Generate a shared secret key. It will be used between the client and the server.

from dnsdist_console import Key

k = Key().generate()
print(k)
OTgmgAR6zbrfrYlKgsAAJn+by4faMqI1bVCvzacXMW0=

The command in one line

python3 -c "from dnsdist_console import Key;print(Key().generate())"

Save-it in your /etc/dnsdist/dnsdist.conf with the setKey directive.

controlSocket('0.0.0.0:5199')
setKey("GQpEpQoIuzA6kzgwDokX9JcXPXFvO1Emg1wAXToJ0ag=")

Handshake

from dnsdist_console import Console

console_ip = "127.0.0.1"
console_port = 5199
console_key = "GQpEpQoIuzA6kzgwDokX9JcXPXFvO1Emg1wAXToJ0ag="

console = Console(host=console_ip,
                  port=console_port, 
                  key=console_key)

Run command

Please refer to the dnsdist documentation for available commands.

o = console.send_command(cmd="showVersion()")
print(o)
dnsdist 1.4.0

Get statistics

Get statistics from dnsdist in JSON format.

from dnsdist_console import Console
from dnsdist_console import Statistics

# dnsdist console
console_ip = "10.0.0.27"
console_port = 5199
console_key = "OTgmgAR6zbrfrYlKgsAAJn+by4faMqI1bVCvzacXMW0="

c = Console(host=console_ip, port=console_port, key=console_key)
s = Statistics(console=c)

stats = s.get_jsonstats()
print(stats)
{'acl-drops': '0', 'latency0-1': '0', 'cache-hits': '0', 'latency1-10': '0', 
'cache-misses': '0', 'latency10-50': '0', 'cpu-sys-msec': '78', 
'latency100-1000': '0', 'cpu-user-msec': '2586', 'latency50-100': '0', 
'downstream-send-errors': '0', 'no-policy': '0', 'downstream-timeouts': '0',
'noncompliant-queries': '0', 'dyn-block-nmg-size': '0', 'noncompliant-responses': '0',
'dyn-blocked': '0', 'queries': '0', 'empty-queries': '0', 'rdqueries': '0', 
'fd-usage': '21', 'real-memory-usage': '969605120', 'frontend-noerror': '0', 
'responses': '0', 'frontend-nxdomain': '0', 'rule-drop': '0', 
'frontend-servfail': '0', 'rule-nxdomain': '0', 'latency-avg100': '0.0', 
'rule-refused': '0', 'latency-avg1000': '0.0', 'rule-servfail': '0', 
'latency-avg10000': '0.0', 'security-status': '0', 'latency-avg1000000': '0.0', 
'self-answered': '0', 'latency-count': '0', 'servfail-responses': '0', 
'latency-slow': '0', 'special-memory-usage': '61931520', 'latency-sum': '0', 
'trunc-failures': '0', 'uptime': '534'}

Display dashboard

Display dashboard for dnsdist from command line

from dnsdist_console import Console
from dnsdist_console import Dashboard

# dnsdist console
console_ip = "10.0.0.27"
console_port = 5199
console_key = "OTgmgAR6zbrfrYlKgsAAJn+by4faMqI1bVCvzacXMW0="

c = Console(host=console_ip, port=console_port, key=console_key)

print(Dashboard(console=c).show())

Dashboard overview

Dashboard for dnsdist

Uptime (seconds): 2402
Number of queries: 85
Query per second: 0
ACL drops: 0
Dynamic drops: 0
Rule drops: 0
CPU Usage: --
Cache hitrate: 0
CPU Usage (%s): 1.1

Ctrl+C to exit