1. Table implementations (spec files) can mark the table as 'cachable'.
2. Cached results depend on the shortest/quickest interval of scheduled
queries that act on results of the table.
3. The table API generator blocks caching on index/additional/required
table column options.
This commit contains the features specified in #1390 as well as a
refactoring of the general osquery configuration code.
The API for the config plugins hasn't changed, although now there's a
`genPack` method that config plugins can implement. If a plugin doesn't
implement `genPack`, then the map<string, string> format cannot be used.
The default config plugin, the filesystem plugin, now implements
`genPack`, so existing query packs code will continue to work as it
always has.
Now many other config plugins can implement custom pack handling for
what makes sense in their context. `genPacks` is not a pure virtual, so
it doesn't have to be implemented in your plugin if you don't want to
use it. Also, more importantly, all config plugins can use the standard
inline pack format if they want to use query packs. Which is awesome.
For more information, refer to #1390, the documentation and the doxygen
comments included with this pull requests, as well as the following
example config which is now supported, regardless of what config plugin
you're using:
```json
{
"options": {
"enable_monitor": "true"
},
"packs": {
"core_os_monitoring": {
"version": "1.4.5",
"discovery": [
"select pid from processes where name like '%osqueryd%';"
],
"queries": {
"kernel_modules": {
"query": "SELECT name, size FROM kernel_modules;",
"interval": 600
},
"system_controls": {
"query": "SELECT * FROM system_controls;",
"interval": 600,
"snapshot": true,
},
"usb_devices": {
"query": "SELECT * FROM usb_devices;",
"interval": 600
}
}
},
"osquery_internal_info": {
"version": "1.4.5",
"discovery": [
"select pid from processes where name like '%osqueryd%';"
],
"queries": {
"info": {
"query": "select i.*, p.resident_size, p.user_time, p.system_time, time.minutes as counter from osquery_info i, processes p, time where p.pid = i.pid;",
"interval": 60,
"snapshot": true
},
"registry": {
"query": "SELECT * FROM osquery_registry;",
"interval": 600,
"snapshot": true
},
"schedule": {
"query": "select name, interval, executions, output_size, wall_time, (user_time/executions) as avg_user_time, (system_time/executions) as avg_system_time, average_memory from osquery_schedule;",
"interval": 60,
"snapshot": true
}
}
}
}
}
```
The `osquery_packs` table was modified to remove the superfluous
columns which could already have been found in `osquery_schedule`. Two
more columns were added in their place, representing stats about pack's
discovery query execution history.
Notably, the internal API for the `osquery::Config` class has changed
rather dramatically as apart of the refactoring. We think this is an
improvement. While strictly adhering to the osquery config plugin
interface will have avoided any compatibility errors, advanced users may
notice compilation errors if they access config data directly. All
internal users of the config have obviously been updated. Yet another
reason to merge your code into mainline; we update it for you when we
refactor!
There are 3 new options that control how files are read:
--read_max: controls the maximum size, in bytes, for file reads. If a file is larger than `read_max` the read will fail.
--read_user_max: similar to `read_max` but applies additional limitations to user-controlled files.
--read_user_links: a boolean control to enable/disable following symlinks for user-controlled files.
Important highlights:
If files exceed the configured max, those reads will fail.
The `read_max` will override `read_user_max` if it is set lower.
A default integer value of `0` will disable the limitations.
The default `read_max` is set to 50M and the default `read_user_max` is 10M.
We now have a Publisher to report on disk events and its metadata,
using the DiskArbitration framework on OS X. Currently disk appearance
and disappearance events are published for both physical and
virtual disks (DMG files). On an event trigger, disk properties are
parsed and that metadata is reported along with the action.
The Subscriber subscribes to virtual disk events currently.
This closes#1103.
`make tests` fails with another osquery process running.
The backing-store check happens after a config plugin is setUp and
the initial load occures. This may involve calls to cached keys, the
check should occur pre-config initialize.
This change allows QueryContext constraints to be checked for based on
operator type. This makes checks for the existence of an equality
operator allow enumeration.
Example:
if (context.constraints["pid"].exists(EQUALS)) {
pids = context.constraints["pid"].getAll(EQUALS);
} else {
osquery::procProcesses(pids);
}
For the second time in a couple of weeks, I've rewritten the xattr table into
a new extended_attributes table.
If we find an attribute that we don't have a parser for, we will check if it
contains non printable characters. If it does, we'll base64 it. If it doesn't,
we will just output the unencoded string.
Use --socket for extensions, limit help
Add an 'active' concept to registries, support a blank item call
Add osquery_registry to list the internal/external plugin details
This introduces the notion of a DistributedQueryHandler that uses a "provider" to read/write requests and results to and from the master. The full flow is exercised via integration tests, and unit tests for each component.
It is intended to foster discussion around this client side interface, as well as provide a base to build from.
