snort Cookbook

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Installs the SNORT IDS daemon.

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Requirements

Platforms

Ubuntu 14.04+
RHEL/CentOS, 7.0 and higher only.
Fedora
Debian 8+

Chef

Chef 12.7+

Resources

Install

On Ubuntu systems, the packages from apt are used.
On RHEL and Fedora systems, the packages are retrieved directly from the SNORT project site.
On Debian the test recipe forces a compiled install.

Config

Configures /etc/snort/snort.conf. We recommend you put your own config in disk using the file resource.

Rules

Downloads rules for snort.

Service

Used to setup the snort_service for use in other resources.

Usage

An example usage pattern can be found in the test cookbook.

Use the snort_install to install the package. This also creates the snort_service resource which you can use to stop, start & enable the snort service correctly.

RHEL based systems you must use the following resources (optional on Debian based systems).

Use snort_config to configure the system.
Use snort_rules to install rules. You will need a licence for this.

Example configs can be found in test/fixtures/cookbooks/test/

References

SNORT home page (opens in a new tab)

Contributors

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Backers

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