smc-python 0.5.6

Python based API to Stonesoft Security Management Center

smc-python

Python based library to provide the ability to interact with the Stonesoft Management Center API. Provides automation capabilities for any environment that interact with the SMC remotely.

Some of the functionality you get with the SMC Python API:

• Create any engine types; single firewall, cluster firewalls, ips engines, layer 2 firewalls, master engine and virtual engines.

• Engine operations such as enabling/disabling AV, GTI, default NAT, Contact Addresses, etc

• Interface configurations

• Routing configurations (OSPF, BGP, Static, Antispoofing)

• Engine level commands such as rebooting, going offline, policy push, enable/disable SSH, etc.

• Create and modify all network element objects such as Host, Network, Address Ranges, Domain Names, etc.

• Policy control (create rules, delete rules) for layer 3 firewall policies

• VPN Policy control and creation

• Management / Log Server settings configuration

• Admin User creation and modification

• System level controls; update system packages, update engines, global blacklisting, etc

• Tasks

• Search operations for any object type by name, href and by filter

• Collections interface to view all objects by type

Requirements

Python 2.7

Python 3.4, 3.5

Requests >= 2.12.0

Security Management Center version 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.2, 6.2.1

Getting Started

Installing package

Use pip to get latest version:

pip install smc-python

Specific version:

pip install 'smc-python>=0.5.5'

From git:

pip install git+https://github.com/gabstopper/smc-python.git

Or download the latest tarball: smc-python, unzip and run:

python setup.py install

Testing

Included are a variety of test example scripts that leverage the API to do various tasks in /examples

Basics

Before any commands are run, you must obtain a login session. Once commands are complete, call session.logout() to remove the active session. To obtain the api_key, log in to the Stonesoft Management Center and create an API client with the proper privileges.

from smc import session

session.login(url='http://1.1.1.1:8082', api_key='xxxxxxxxxxxxx')
....do stuff....
session.logout()

Or log in to a specific Admin Domain and use a specific version of the API:

session.login(url='http://1.1.1.1:8082', api_key='xxxxxxxxxxxxx',
              domain=mydomain, api_version=6.2)
....do stuff....
session.logout()

Once a valid session is obtained, it will be re-used for each operation for the duration of the sessions validity, or until the program is exited.

Extensions

Extensions are available to smc-python that provide additional functionality besides what is provided in the base library. Extensions are kept separate as they may require additional package requirements and simplify packaging.

Extensions will require smc-python to function, but it is possible to install an extension directly and it will grab the required smc-python version automatically.

Available extensions:

• smc-python-monitoring: Monitoring for SMC connections, blacklists, users, VPNs, alerts, etc. In addition this package provides the ability to ‘subscribe’ to administrative event modifications.

Example install of an smc-python extension:

pip install smc-python-monitoring

Extensions are found in the base smc-python repository as namespace packages and each is housed in it’s own sub-directory of this base package.

Please see the read-the-docs documentation above for a full explanation and technical reference on available API classes.

View Documentation on Read The Docs

Release History

0.5.6

Note

For older release release history information, see CHANGELOG. All future documentation will be logged in this document.

Improvements

• Support SMC 6.3:

  • Support for L2 interface policies (Inline L2, IPS and Capture interfaces on L3 engine)

  • Route based VPN support, IPSEC wrapped RBVPN and GRE Tunnel/Transport/No Encryption VPN.

• SMC 6.3 API only supports TLSv1.2 or greater, ensure your openssl version supports TLSv1.2. This can be done by: openssl s_client -connect <smc_ip>:8082 -tls1_2

• Simplified generic Search (smc.base.collections.Search) to be uniform with ElementCollection.

• Simplify API reference documentation

• SMC login using environment variables. See session documentation for more info.

• Rule counters on all Policy types

• Proxy or static type required when adding arp entry to interface

• Add simple .get() method on Element. This simplifies determining if the element by name exists. For example, Host.get(‘kali’) would raise ElementNotFound if it doesn’t exist. Prior to this, you would have to search for the element and attempt to access and element resource before receiving the ElementNotFound message, i.e. host = Host(‘kali’); host.address. The ‘get()’ method still returns an ‘un-inflated’ instance (only meta data).

• Deprecation warnings are now generated for functions in smc.core.engine.interfaces: add_single_node_interface, add_node_interface, add_vlan_to_node_interface, add_ipaddress_to_vlan_interface. These functions will eventually be deprecated. As of version 6.3, SMC engines can now support both layer 2 and layer 3 interfaces on the same engine. New interface functions added: add_layer3_vlan_interface, add_layer3_interface, add_inline_ips_interface, add_inline_l2fw_interface.

• New element types: URLCategory, URLCategoryGroup, ICMPServiceGroup

Important

Renamed smc.vpn.policy.VPNPolicy to smc.vpn.policy.PolicyVPN

Bugfixes

• HTTP GET was treating a 204 response as an error, fix to treat No Content response as success.

• Fix help() on dynamic create_collection class so constructor methods are proxied properly

• Raise SMCConnectionError when non-HTTP 200 error code presented from SMC when retrieving entry points

• Sending empty payload on POST request with parameters might cause validation error. Do not submit empty dict with POST requests.