This includes a minor SDK refactor as it move quite a few specialized
functions and facilities from core.h into system.h. There was a breaking point
for needing to frequently update core includes.
The new logger systemLog function allows a call site to bypass logging config
and write a line to the OS logger (aka syslog).
Include table changes necessary for a Windows processes table and changes to other tables needed for daemon and shell to run. The Windows processes table uses WMI as a backend to gather information. This commit does not yet build these tables.
This changes several initialization steps:
- The daemon (and shell, though not needed) have a new --ephemeral flag.
- Events are now disabled in the shell by default, use --nodisable_events to
re-enable.
- RocksDB-based backing storage is now disabled in the shell by default.
The --ephemeral flag for the daemon is disabled by default and will allow
skipping configuration and database path sanity, and skipping pidfile checks.
This is intended to be used when debugging or monitoring the daemon process.
To make the RocksDB backing storage feature usage very clear we introduce a new
flag: --disable_database. The shell sets this to true unless overridden in
a flagfile or via command line arguments.
Integrated process abstraction code into more locations
Defined new macros for abstracting across various platforms
Added GLOG_NO_ABBREVIATED_SEVERITIES for glog to support Windows
Fixed some minor CMake issues involving thrift
Updated gflags package; reflecting change in provision script
Preparing CMake config files for WIN32 support
This adds a new optimization feature that allows expensive tables to cache
their results between JOINs. Consider JOINing a list of open sockets, for each
process, then requesting to hash each process path. This query may hash
the same path multiple times.
Within-query caching allows the hash table to respond with the previous
result of the hash request as long as the requested computation was the result
of a single query. Subsequent queries will perform subsequent hashing.
It is often helpful to know the local timezone of the machine. For this use
local_timezone, as the base timezone will use local or UTC depending on the
--utc flag. This will be default=UTC in osquery 1.8.0.
The datetime field is added to mimic ISO 8601, along with iso_8601.
The timestamp field remains as the time stamp used for logging (within osquery)
and commonly outside of osquery. The goal for adding multiple representations
is to allow joining/augmenting of other tables.
Beginning in version 1.8.0 all time uses will converge on an osquery-provided
getUnixTime() API call that returns, by default, UNIX time integers converted
to UTC/GMT. The 'time' table will respond with the parsed time for the
configuration. If the timezone is not UTC then osquery is using localtime.
This configuration option will affect the 'unix_time' response in the 'time'
table. Because of this configurable-effect the table is extended to include
'local_time' which is always the system local UNIX time.
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!
1. Example queries will run with an (optional) integration test.
2. Fix bad accesses with OS X package BOMs
3. Move spec files from ./osquery/tables/specs to ./specs
4. Remove server parsers (netlib) from client builds.
