Web service for analysing pcap files with snort
Project description
Web service for analysing pcap files with snort.
Overview
websnort provides a web interface for user and system submission of packet capture files to run against a snort IDS instance. Alerts and logs are returned as results.
If you are after a web interface for monitoring a running snort instance, see https://www.snort.org/downloads#additional-downloads instead.
Getting Started
Ubuntu
Install snort if needed:
sudo apt-get install snort
Optional Disable running snort service if only required for this web api:
sudo service snort stop sudo update-rc.d snort disable
On recent ubuntu/debian releases the default snort.conf is not world readable. Unless planning to run the web service as root (not recommended) you will need to modify the permissions, for example:
sudo chmod a+r /etc/snort/snort.conf
Install web service using pip:
sudo pip install websnort
Start the websnort web server on the default port:
websnort
Browse to server:8080 and submit a pcap file for analysis.
Issues
Source code for websnort is hosted on GitHub. Any bug reports or feature requests can be made using GitHub’s issues system.
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