Re: Barnyard2 issue w/unified2 ?

[beenph <beenph () gmail com>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () utc edu> wrote:

>  On 8/15/2013 11:52 AM, John Ives wrote:
>
> Jeff,
>
> My understanding from my own research is that for each instance of
> snort on a system there needs to be an instance of barnyard2 each with
> its own configuration file. Supposedly, that is all that is needed.
> However, I have not been able to make it work as all but one of the
> barnyards will eventually crash. Unfortunately, I have not had enough
> time look for a fix, since moving to fewer systems running pf_ring
> instead of a cluster of systems is a roadmap project. I will, however
> be watching this thread with interest.
>
>
> We run two sensors, each with 4 instances of snort and 4 instances of
> barnyard2, with unique configurations for each.
>
> Each sensor has it's own ID:
>
>    < Sensor >   < Name >   23  snort-campus-1:p1p1:p1p1   24 snort-campus-3:p1p1:p1p1  25 snort-campus-2:p1p1:p1p1  
> 26 snort-campus-4:p1p1:p1p1  27 snort-dorms-1:p1p1:p1p1  28 snort-dorms-2:p1p1:p1p1  29 snort-dorms-3:p1p1:p1p1  30 
> snort-dorms-4:p1p1:p1p1
> The "issue" generally appears at startup (and beenph indicated
> sig_reference is populated at startup), with a duplicate row in
> sig_reference.  All instances crash with the same error.  For example:
>
> [jeff@snort-campus ~]$ sudo grep barn /var/log/messages|grep Duplicate
> Aug 13 09:59:08 snort-campus barnyard2[29867]: FATAL ERROR: database
> mysql_error: Duplicate entry '167807-1' for key
> 'PRIMARY'#012#011SQL=[INSERT INTO sig_reference (ref_id,sig_id,ref_seq)
> VALUES ('154939','167807','1');]
> Aug 13 09:59:36 snort-campus barnyard2[29874]: FATAL ERROR: database
> mysql_error: Duplicate entry '167807-1' for key
> 'PRIMARY'#012#011SQL=[INSERT INTO sig_reference (ref_id,sig_id,ref_seq)
> VALUES ('154939','167807','1');]
> Aug 13 09:59:42 snort-campus barnyard2[29878]: FATAL ERROR: database
> mysql_error: Duplicate entry '167807-1' for key
> 'PRIMARY'#012#011SQL=[INSERT INTO sig_reference (ref_id,sig_id,ref_seq)
> VALUES ('154939','167807','1');]
>
> Aug 13 09:59:43 snort-campus barnyard2[29882]: FATAL ERROR: database
> mysql_error: Duplicate entry '167807-1' for key
> 'PRIMARY'#012#011SQL=[INSERT INTO sig_reference (ref_id,sig_id,ref_seq)
> VALUES ('154939','167807','1');]
>
>
> [jeff@snort-dorms ~]$ sudo grep barn /var/log/messages|grep Duplicate
> Aug 14 18:41:34 snort-dorms barnyard2[31989]: FATAL ERROR: database
> mysql_error: Duplicate entry '167807-1' for key
> 'PRIMARY'#012#011SQL=[INSERT INTO sig_reference (ref_id,sig_id,ref_seq)
> VALUES ('132475','167807','1');]
> Aug 14 18:41:49 snort-dorms barnyard2[31993]: FATAL ERROR: database
> mysql_error: Duplicate entry '167807-1' for key
> 'PRIMARY'#012#011SQL=[INSERT INTO sig_reference (ref_id,sig_id,ref_seq)
> VALUES ('132475','167807','1');]
> Aug 14 18:42:26 snort-dorms barnyard2[31998]: FATAL ERROR: database
> mysql_error: Duplicate entry '167807-1' for key
> 'PRIMARY'#012#011SQL=[INSERT INTO sig_reference (ref_id,sig_id,ref_seq)
> VALUES ('132475','167807','1');]
> Aug 14 18:42:40 snort-dorms barnyard2[32002]: FATAL ERROR: database
> mysql_error: Duplicate entry '167807-1' for key
> 'PRIMARY'#012#011SQL=[INSERT INTO sig_reference (ref_id,sig_id,ref_seq)
> VALUES ('132475','167807','1');]
>
>
> These errors have persisted even after a "delete from sig_reference;" on
> the database, both before and after the InnoDB conversion.
>
> I'm a bit loathe to recreate the database (loss of current events) but if
> beenph insists that's the only sure fix, I may have to bite the bullet.

Keep your current database, create a new database that is native InnoDB and
you will not loose anything
and if you want to consult your archive you just point your UI to the old
database.


-elz

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