Re: How do I automate reading multiple captures?

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

On Dec 15, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Matt Lenco wrote:

> I have ~100 binary capture files given to me per month. I am currently reading them into SNORT, if the Kiwi Syslog 
> shows alerts I save this off into a cell in an Excel spreadsheet along with the filename of the bin file reading into 
> SNORT. 
>
> I need a better process, something where I can kick off in batch mode, read all 100 files and then each file read has 
> its own file of the suspicious packets in it and a view of the SNORT generated alerts showing up in Kiwi syslog. Can 
> I then import these two to a report generator somehow?
>
> How do I do this, automated?

You can script Snort, perhaps with the --pcap-dir argument for the command line.  Take a look at "snort -h" and look 
for the --pcap-dir argument.

J

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