Re: Extending CSV output plug-in

[Jason <security () brvenik com>]

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Kamran Shafi wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am new to Snort and this is my first mail to this list so please bear with
> me.
>
> First - I have been trying hard for last few days to get csv plug-in work
> for me but it has not. I am on Fedora Core 7 and running Snort 2.8.1 the
> latest version. I am running Snort with the following command:
>
> snort -A console -i lo -c test.conf  (please see the output of running this
> command at the bottom of this mail)
>
> I have enabled only one rules file i.e. local.rules and have some test rules
> in it.
>
> the entry for my csv output plug-in in the test.conf file is
>
> output alert_CSV: /var/log/alert.csv default
>
> Afterwards I generate some attack traffic and get some alerts on the
> console. (please see the output at the end of this mail).
>
> The problem is that the alert.csv is never created!!!
>
> I have tried using full mode, -h flag and few other tricks but nothing is
> working

Perhaps it is because command line options override the config file.

> Please note that I have not installed barnyard and assume that it is not a
> must for csv module to work.
>
> My second question is the following:
>
> If I am lucky enough to configure the csv module correctly with the help of
> you gurus, then how can I extend this module to add more details about the
> packet payload to the csv output ?
>
> I have posted similar messages on Snort forum without any response. Any help
> is appreciated.

You will have to write the code to make packet data available in the csv.

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