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venquessa
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IPTables script modifications.

Post by venquessa »

I tried to email the author and tried his website but everything seemed to be down or rejected.

So, I'll post here.

The following is a modified iptable.pl script that will retain "all" the counters in a chain. Each rules counters are returned as for example:

rule1:123 rule2:5678 rule3:9876

If the author is reading, thanks for your script and please feel free to use the mod, juset add me a credit.

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#!/usr/bin/perl
##
## This is a quick perl script to
## pull bandwidth usage from iptables chains
##
## If you use/optimize this script, please let me know.
## Brian Stanback : brian [at] stanback [dot] net
#
## Example iptables rule for web bandwidth usage:
## > iptables -N WWW
## > iptables -A WWW -j ACCEPT
## > iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j WWW
## > iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp --sport 80 -j WWW
##
## Run "iptables.pl WWW" as root to test, note that you can
## combine more than one protocol into a single chain.
##
## Sudo Configuration (/etc/sudoers)
## > www-data    ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/share/cacti/scripts/iptables.pl
##
## The Input String should be set to "sudo <path_cacti>/scripts/iptables.pl <chain>"
## and you will need to setup an input field so that the <chain> argument can be passed.
##
## The data input type should be set to COUNTER
##
#
# 
# modified by: Paul Campbell <forums@campbell-multimedia.co.uk>
# Now returns a seperate entry for each rule.  Output for a
# 3 rule chain might now be:
# rule1:123 rule2:456 rule3:789

if ($ARGV[0]) {
        $chains = `/sbin/iptables --line-number -xnvL $ARGV[0]`;
        @chains = split(/\n/, $chains);
        shift(@chains);
        shift(@chains);
        foreach( @chains ) {
                /(\d+)\W+[0-9]+\W+([0-9]+)\W+/;
                print " rule$1:$2";
        }
        print "\n";
        #$chains[2] =~ /[\W+]?[0-9]+\W+([0-9]+)\W+/;
} else {
        print "Usage: $0 Chain\n";
}

Demo:
http://campbell-multimedia.co.uk/cacti/ ... leaf_id=28
User: guest
Pass: guest

Enjoy.
rdilallo
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Joined: Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:22 pm
Location: St. Louis, MO

Post by rdilallo »

It looks great! I really appreciate seeing scripts like this. The whole point of graphing is to be able to tell a story. The more chapters you add, the better the story will be!!!

Keep up the good work!
mindstormmaster
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Post by mindstormmaster »

Can you post the template xml for the graphs/data sources? This looks really cool and is very helpful. I've been looking for something like this for a while.
venquessa
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Joined: Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:30 pm

Post by venquessa »

I'd love to, but as I haven't figured out how to use the template system on Cacti, I don't have a template.

The process to create the graphs was...

Add iptables rules to mark traffic in the "mangle" FORWARD chain. Use a bit flag structure, so you can match on AND masks later for the counters.

In my case these same marks are used to filter traffic into HTB classes and queues for QoS, but need not be for the graphs.

Then put your COUNTERS chain into the default FORWARD chain to match on bit masks for each type of traffic, or each user. In my case,

Bits 1, 2 and 4 are the 3 user sets. Me, my bro and the web server.
Bits 8, 16, 32 are high mid low priority traffic respectively.
Bit 64 is "outbound" selector.

Therefore:

--match mark --mark 1/1

Matches all my traffic and only my traffic.

mark 1/65

Would match all my inbound traffic. if the result of MARK AND 65 is 1, then 1 is set and 64 is not.

You "could" just not bother with the marking stuff, especially if you aren't going to use it for traffic control, but just accounting and make do with generic rules in the COUNTERS chain.

Next step was to put the iptables.pl script into SNMP.conf and create a <cacti_path>/scripts/iptables-snmp.pl script to parse the multiple values from the one SNMP response and set that up for the Input Method in cacti. ( I couldn't figure out how to graph more than one value from one snmp query). The script simply dumped the filtered reply to "snmpwalk -c public -v 2c routerinner.domain.com OID"

Then define the data sources to graph each of the rules.

Finally define a graph or graphs to show the data sources as you want them.

I'll certainly help you more, and if anyone can explain the template system to me, then I'd maybe give that a go if I can find the time.

BFN
micoots
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Joined: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:27 pm

Post by micoots »

Hi,
venquessa wrote: Next step was to put the iptables.pl script into SNMP.conf and create a <cacti_path>/scripts/iptables-snmp.pl script to parse the multiple values from the one SNMP response and set that up for the Input Method in cacti. ( I couldn't figure out how to graph more than one value from one snmp query). The script simply dumped the filtered reply to "snmpwalk -c public -v 2c routerinner.domain.com OID"
Is there any chance you could make available your iptables-snmp.pl script please?

I currently graph all bandwidth usage usage one snmp query each time and am trying to the one query process working. I use your iptables.pl script fine and get all the rules listed I want, just I can't post-process this file as you say:

The script simply dumped the filtered reply to "snmpwalk -c public -v 2c routerinner.domain.com OID"

That doesn't make sense to me.

Thanks.

Michael.
cacti-lavoro
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Joined: Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:39 pm

Post by cacti-lavoro »

Anybody had problems doing iptables restart?
In my graphs there are peaks!

Thanks
flixy2k8
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Joined: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:50 am

Post by flixy2k8 »

Would be really helpful if you please can describe your steps
put the iptables.pl script into SNMP.conf and create a <cacti_path>/scripts/iptables-snmp.pl
and provide the scipts.
I'm about to create a logging für TC. I have seen you have a category for tc on your cacti link. How far are you with that.
wolvverine-pld
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Post by wolvverine-pld »

scripts from http://www.nativenet.ch/content/view/28/51

example on linux (debian) router with snmp:

add in snmpd.conf
....
exec Input '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/bin/newiptables.pl INPUT'
exec Output '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/bin/newiptables.pl OUTPUT'
exec Forward '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/bin/newiptables.pl FORWARD'
.......


in /etc/sudoers
...
snmp ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/newiptables.pl
...

and restart snmpd.


on another host with cacti:
add scripts newiptables.sh to /usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/

and install xml templates to cacti.

change "Data Input Methods [edit: FireWall-Traffic]-input string" to:

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<path_cacti>/scripts/newiptables.sh <Host_IP> <community>
change in /usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/newiptables.sh:

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...
#The default Firewall-Host. For others, enter the ip as input-parameter!

HOST=$1

# The snmp community-name
COMM=$2
...
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cacti_data_template_iptables_firewall.xml
example for data input template
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