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    • H
      hamed_forum
      last edited by

      tanks
      if can creat ova or ovf from vm machine and upload it its very good :)

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        doktornotor Banned
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        http://pfelk.3ilson.com/ basically works, but some pointers:

        1/ There's a PPA for MaxMind:

        sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maxmind/ppa
        
        • see http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoipupdate/ for /etc/GeoIP.conf and run geoipupdate after that. The DB is located in /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-City.mmdb

        2/ You really should set up some authentication:

        https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/installing-xpack.html#xpack-package-installation
        https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/setting-up-authentication.html
        https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/logstash.html

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          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
          last edited by

          Yeah I had issues with the date stuff in logstash config as well.. had to remove the +0400 and timezone..

          I have it running, but elasticstack doesn't seem to want to stay running.  Haven't had time to look into why.  And have not had any time to do any visualizations - which is what everyone wants ;)

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            doktornotor Banned
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            @johnpoz:

            I have it running, but elasticstack doesn't seem to want to stay running.  Haven't had time to look into why.

            Make sure you've allocated at least 4GiB of RAM to this thing. (Java  >:( ::))

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              hamed_forum
              last edited by

              Elasticsearch after 10 sec  start its stop

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                bubbawatson
                last edited by

                @doktornotor:

                @johnpoz:

                I have it running, but elasticstack doesn't seem to want to stay running.  Haven't had time to look into why.

                Make sure you've allocated at least 4GiB of RAM to this thing. (Java  >:( ::))

                I run elk stack on 1.5  ;D

                Small office though. Thx for the info on auth.. I've been wondering how to do that.

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                  BrunoCAVILLE
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                  I'm currently going through the process of installing ELK but I have an important question. If I redirect the logs from pfSense to the ELK server will I be able to access the raw logs somewhere? I need to have them somewhere and I'm wondering where they would be if they are sent to ELK.

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                    BrunoCAVILLE
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                    Eveything works well except the maps visualization, someone can help?

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                      BrunoCAVILLE
                      last edited by

                      Up

                      Logstash stops after a few seconds (rising heap size didn't help).

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                        AMizil
                        last edited by

                        @BrunoCAVILLE:

                        I'm currently going through the process of installing ELK but I have an important question. If I redirect the logs from pfSense to the ELK server will I be able to access the raw logs somewhere? I need to have them somewhere and I'm wondering where they would be if they are sent to ELK.

                        Status Menu - System Logs - Settings  - and jump to :  Remote log servers - and you can add another 2 Syslog Servers you have ; ex syslog-ng, Splunk etc

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                          ronv
                          last edited by

                          Hi all,

                          trying to get this going with PFsense 2.3.4 and ELK 5.4 - all components are talking ok, and I can get the JSON Dashboard, Search and Visualization up and running - almost…:

                          • when I import the visualizations, Kibana complains that the tags geoip.country_name and geoip.city_name are not available.
                          • I checked 11-pfsense.conf (which I used from this site) against the spec at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-geoip.html, and there does not appear to be any issue with this - that is, it looks like those tags should be returned.

                          Anything else I could check, or logs I could provide?

                          kind regards

                          Ron

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                            hamed_forum
                            last edited by

                            the log send from pfsense where is save on elk?
                            i change the elk server and how to export import log on prvise server?

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                              pfBasic Banned
                              last edited by

                              Any differences to get this running on 2.4.0 BETA?

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                                pfBasic Banned
                                last edited by

                                I finally got this up & running on pfSense 2.4.0 BETA with the help of AR15USR and some people on IRC.

                                Initially I was having trouble getting the Index Patterns to populate in the first step of Kibana. I had followed doktornotor's advice for setting up MaxMind. For whatever reason that didn't work for me so I just did it according to http://pfelk.3ilson.com/ and it worked.

                                Next, I had everything stable and logs being imported, but all logs were being tagged "_grokparsefailure" & "_geoip_lookup_failure" and since the pattern wasn't matching, it wasn't putting out any useful fields/information. This was also preventing me from importing the Visualizations.json due to not having the applicable fields available.

                                After way too much time troubleshooting and trying to figure out what was happening and why I was given some direction and pointed to the grok debugger by a kind IRC user. https://grokdebug.herokuapp.com/
                                For anyone looking to troubleshoot or modify their own grok pattern files, here's what I could make of the fields in 2.4.0 BETA's Rsyslog format. https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=133354.msg733494#msg733494
                                Run a pcap to see exactly what your pfSense box is sending to your ELK server.

                                It turned out that all I needed to do was change one character in /etc/logstash/conf.d/patterns/pfsense2-3.grok and reboot.

                                I changed line 16 (PFSENSE_LOG_DATA)
                                From:

                                PFSENSE_LOG_DATA (%{INT:rule}),(%{INT:sub_rule}),,(%{INT:tracker}),(%{WORD:iface}),(%{WORD:reason}),(%{WORD:action}),(%{WORD:direction}),(%{INT:ip_ver}),
                                

                                To:

                                PFSENSE_LOG_DATA (%{INT:rule}),(%{INT:sub_rule})?,,(%{INT:tracker}),(%{WORD:iface}),(%{WORD:reason}),(%{WORD:action}),(%{WORD:direction}),(%{INT:ip_ver}),
                                

                                That's it, one "?".

                                After that, log files were parsing successfully, I refreshed my Index Pattern Field List to pull in all of the new fields, imported the Visualizations.json and opened up the Dashboard. All is working now on my single core atom with 2GB DDR2!

                                @doktornotor:

                                @johnpoz:

                                I have it running, but elasticstack doesn't seem to want to stay running.  Haven't had time to look into why.

                                Make sure you've allocated at least 4GiB of RAM to this thing. (Java  >:( ::))

                                I have this up and running (for home use) on an old netbook with an atom N450 (Pineview ~2010, single core 1.66GHz) with 2GB DDR2. I had to significantly lower RAM usage in the following two files to get it working. Currently using <1.5GB RAM, the OS is lubuntu with GUI service disabled. It's also running a Unifi controller. Dashboard is slow to load even for a small home network but it works! I couldn't justify buying anything to get an ELK stack for my home network.

                                /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options
                                
                                /etc/logstash/jvm.options
                                

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                                  idealanthony
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                                  @BrunoCAVILLE:

                                  Eveything works well except the maps visualization, someone can help?

                                  @BrunoCAVILLE - I'm having the same problem as you did.  I used the revised visualization file due to the .keyword issue.  I've attempted to merge back in the country sections from the http://pfelk.3ilson.com/ visualization file, but still no luck.  Just wanted to know if you were able to identify/ resolve the issue?

                                  https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=125376.0

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                                    pfBasic Banned
                                    last edited by

                                    Did you refresh your fields list (Management / Index Patterns) after a number of your log files were successfully parsed?

                                    If not, do that first then try to import the pf3lk visulization.json.

                                    The import fails if you don't have the appropriate fields available.

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                                      8ayM
                                      last edited by

                                      I just wanted to add that the Kibana4 init script from the OP is no longer listed via a link as others were so I wanted to copy it here in text form as it did take me a moment to realize that the scripts were all included in a zip file in the op as well.

                                      Kibana4 init script:

                                      #!/bin/sh

                                      /etc/init.d/kibana4 – startup script for kibana4

                                      bsmith@the408.com 2015-02-20; used elasticsearch init script as template

                                      https://github.com/akabdog/scripts/edit/master/kibana4_init

                                      BEGIN INIT INFO

                                      Provides:          kibana4

                                      Required-Start:    $network $remote_fs $named

                                      Required-Stop:    $network $remote_fs $named

                                      Default-Start:    2 3 4 5

                                      Default-Stop:      0 1 6

                                      Short-Description: Starts kibana4

                                      Description:      Starts kibana4 using start-stop-daemon

                                      END INIT INFO

                                      #configure this with wherever you unpacked kibana:
                                      KIBANA_BIN=/opt/kibana4/bin

                                      PID_FILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
                                      PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:$KIBANA_BIN
                                      DAEMON=$KIBANA_BIN/kibana
                                      NAME=kibana4
                                      DESC="Kibana4"

                                      if [ id -u -ne 0 ]; then
                                              echo "You need root privileges to run this script"
                                              exit 1
                                      fi

                                      . /lib/lsb/init-functions

                                      if [ -r /etc/default/rcS ]; then
                                              . /etc/default/rcS
                                      fi

                                      case "$1" in
                                        start)
                                              log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC"

                                      pid=pidofproc -p $PID_FILE kibana
                                              if [ -n "$pid" ] ; then
                                                      log_begin_msg "Already running."
                                                      log_end_msg 0
                                                      exit 0
                                              fi

                                      # Start Daemon
                                              start-stop-daemon –start --pidfile "$PID_FILE" --make-pidfile --background --exec $DAEMON
                                              log_end_msg $?
                                              ;;
                                        stop)
                                              log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC"

                                      if [ -f "$PID_FILE" ]; then
                                                      start-stop-daemon –stop --pidfile "$PID_FILE"
                                                              --retry=TERM/20/KILL/5 >/dev/null
                                                      if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
                                                              log_progress_msg "$DESC is not running but pid file exists, cleaning up"
                                                      elif [ $? -eq 3 ]; then
                                                              PID="cat $PID_FILE"
                                                              log_failure_msg "Failed to stop $DESC (pid $PID)"
                                                              exit 1
                                                      fi
                                                      rm -f "$PID_FILE"
                                              else
                                                      log_progress_msg "(not running)"
                                              fi
                                              log_end_msg 0
                                              ;;
                                        status)
                                              status_of_proc -p $PID_FILE kibana kibana && exit 0 || exit $?
                                          ;;
                                        restart|force-reload)
                                              if [ -f "$PID_FILE" ]; then
                                                      $0 stop
                                                      sleep 1
                                              fi
                                              $0 start
                                              ;;
                                        *)
                                              log_success_msg "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}"
                                              exit 1
                                              ;;
                                      esac

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                                        8ayM
                                        last edited by

                                        @AR15USR:

                                        ando1, any idea what is going on?

                                        PS I ran everyone of your troubleshooting commands and they all error out fyi…

                                        How did you make out with this? I'm running into the same issue and it doesn't look like there was a resolution to the issue.

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                                          AR15USR
                                          last edited by

                                          I'm starting to get this error when my Dashboard refreshes: "Courier Fetch: 28 of 325 shards failed."

                                          I've noticed that I'm seeing yellow health and replications:

                                          health status index               uuid                   pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
                                          green  open   logstash-2017.09.09 yhdtjrKHQVycMOCfBmssWQ   5   0     347962            0    150.8mb        150.8mb
                                          green  open   logstash-2017.09.10 Yg98wyN5SYav2dnc8OmFxA   5   0     359406            0      158mb          158mb
                                          green  open   logstash-2017.09.11 mG66BkrDQOSnyJCqI5Ir-w   5   0     380644            0    164.2mb        164.2mb
                                          green  open   logstash-2017.09.12 y26fNsoORtW6cSx1QcE7ZQ   5   0     390537            0    169.2mb        169.2mb
                                          green  open   logstash-2017.09.13 MxyncENMRXqxLnMuJIw1rw   5   0     353464            0    152.2mb        152.2mb
                                          yellow open   logstash-2017.09.14 Gp3dZ-uUTeWv9YIS4calhw   5   1     376975            0    163.5mb        163.5mb
                                          yellow open   logstash-2017.09.15 cq8n4mYYSWGZZrzrb50B-g   5   1     392566            0    165.2mb        165.2mb
                                          yellow open   logstash-2017.09.16 u7aF2fGSSmOJmJCU4odO5w   5   1     210728            0     94.5mb         94.5mb
                                          
                                          

                                          Anyone know why this is happening all the sudden?


                                          2.6.0-RELEASE

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                                            AR15USR
                                            last edited by

                                            Anyone able to give me any clues or places to start with the above?


                                            2.6.0-RELEASE

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