Common Constants

File location

  • Bundled implementation: source/client/python/const.py

  • Cluster implementation: cluster/core/source/python/const.py

const.ROOT
Type

str

Path to the BroAPT-Core framework source codes (absolute path at runtime).

const.BOOLEAN_STATES = {'1': True, '0': False, 'yes': True, 'no': False, 'true': True, 'false': False, 'on': True, 'off': False}

Mapping of boolean states, c.f. configparser.

const.CPU_CNT
Type

int

Environ

BROAPT_CPU

Number of BroAPT concurrent processes for PCAP analysis. If not provided, then the number of system CPUs will be used.

const.INTERVAL
Type

float

Environ

Wait interval after processing current pool of PCAP files.

const.DUMP_PATH
Type

str (path)

Environ

BROAPT_DUMP_PATH

Path to extracted files.

const.PCAP_PATH
Type

str (path)

Environ

BROAPT_PCAP_PATH

Path to source PCAP files.

const.LOGS_PATH
Type

str (path)

Environ

BROAPT_LOGS_PATH

Path to system logs.

const.MIME_MODE
Type

bool

Environ

BROAPT_MIME_MODE

If group extracted files by MIME type.

const.BARE_MODE
Type

bool

Environ

BROAPT_BARE_MODE

Run Bro in bare mode (don’t load scripts from the base/ directory).

const.NO_CHKSUM
Type

bool

Environ

BROAPT_NO_CHKSUM

Ignore checksums of packets in PCAP files when running Bro.

const.HOOK_CPU
Type

int

Environ

BROAPT_HOOK_CPU

Number of BroAPT concurrent processes for Python hooks.

const.FILE
Type

str

os.path.join(LOGS_PATH, 'file.log')

Path to file system database of processed PCAP files.

const.TIME
Type

str

os.path.join(LOGS_PATH, 'time.log')

Path to log file of processing time records.

const.STDOUT
Type

str

os.path.join(LOGS_PATH, 'stdout.log')

Path to stdout replica.

const.STDERR
Type

str

os.path.join(LOGS_PATH, 'stderr.log')

Path to stderr replica.

const.QUEUE_LOGS
Type

multiprocessing.Queue

Availability

bundled implementation

Teleprocess communication queue for log processing.

const.QUEUE
Type

multiprocessing.Queue

Availability

cluster implementation

See also

const.QUEUE_LOGS