#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ Example collector script for NetFlow v1, v5, and v9. This file belongs to https://github.com/bitkeks/python-netflow-v9-softflowd. Copyright 2017-2019 Dominik Pataky Licensed under MIT License. See LICENSE. """ import argparse from collections import namedtuple import queue import gzip import json import logging import sys import socketserver import threading import time from netflow import parse_packet, TemplateNotRecognized, UnknownNetFlowVersion logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) # Amount of time to wait before dropping an undecodable ExportPacket PACKET_TIMEOUT = 60 * 60 RawPacket = namedtuple('RawPacket', ['ts', 'client', 'data']) class QueuingRequestHandler(socketserver.BaseRequestHandler): def handle(self): data = self.request[0] # get content, [1] would be the socket self.server.queue.put(RawPacket(time.time(), self.client_address, data)) logger.debug( "Received %d bytes of data from %s", len(data), self.client_address ) class QueuingUDPListener(socketserver.ThreadingUDPServer): """A threaded UDP server that adds a (time, data) tuple to a queue for every request it sees """ def __init__(self, interface, queue): self.queue = queue super().__init__(interface, QueuingRequestHandler) class NetFlowListener(threading.Thread): """A thread that listens for incoming NetFlow packets, processes them, and makes them available to consumers. - When initialized, will start listening for NetFlow packets on the provided host and port and queuing them for processing. - When started, will start processing and parsing queued packets. - When stopped, will shut down the listener and stop processing. - When joined, will wait for the listener to exit For example, a simple script that outputs data until killed with CTRL+C: >>> listener = NetFlowListener('0.0.0.0', 2055) >>> print("Listening for NetFlow packets") >>> listener.start() # start processing packets >>> try: ... while True: ... ts, export = listener.get() ... print("Time: {}".format(ts)) ... for f in export.flows: ... print(" - {IPV4_SRC_ADDR} sent data to {IPV4_DST_ADDR}" ... "".format(**f)) ... finally: ... print("Stopping...") ... listener.stop() ... listener.join() ... print("Stopped!") """ def __init__(self, host, port): logger.info("Starting the NetFlow listener on {}:{}".format(host, port)) self.output = queue.Queue() self.input = queue.Queue() self.server = QueuingUDPListener((host, port), self.input) self.thread = threading.Thread(target=self.server.serve_forever) self.thread.start() self._shutdown = threading.Event() super().__init__() def get(self, block=True, timeout=None): """Get a processed flow. If optional args 'block' is true and 'timeout' is None (the default), block if necessary until a flow is available. If 'timeout' is a non-negative number, it blocks at most 'timeout' seconds and raises the queue.Empty exception if no flow was available within that time. Otherwise ('block' is false), return a flow if one is immediately available, else raise the queue.Empty exception ('timeout' is ignored in that case). """ return self.output.get(block, timeout) def run(self): # Process packets from the queue try: templates = {} to_retry = [] while not self._shutdown.is_set(): try: # 0.5s delay to limit CPU usage while waiting for new packets pkt: RawPacket = self.input.get(block=True, timeout=0.5) except queue.Empty: continue try: export = parse_packet(pkt.data, templates) except UnknownNetFlowVersion as e: logger.error("%s, ignoring the packet", e) continue except TemplateNotRecognized: if time.time() - pkt.ts > PACKET_TIMEOUT: logger.warning("Dropping an old and undecodable v9 ExportPacket") else: to_retry.append(pkt) logger.debug("Failed to decode a v9 ExportPacket - will " "re-attempt when a new template is discovered") continue logger.debug("Processed a v%d ExportPacket with %d flows.", export.header.version, export.header.count) # If any new templates were discovered, dump the unprocessable # data back into the queue and try to decode them again if export.header.version == 9 and export.contains_new_templates and to_retry: logger.debug("Received new template(s)") logger.debug("Will re-attempt to decode %d old v9 ExportPackets", len(to_retry)) for p in to_retry: self.input.put(p) to_retry.clear() self.output.put((pkt.ts, pkt.client, export)) finally: self.server.shutdown() self.server.server_close() def stop(self): logger.info("Shutting down the NetFlow listener") self._shutdown.set() def join(self, timeout=None): self.thread.join(timeout=timeout) super().join(timeout=timeout) def get_export_packets(host, port): """A generator that will yield ExportPacket objects until it is killed""" listener = NetFlowListener(host, port) listener.start() try: while True: yield listener.get() finally: listener.stop() listener.join() if __name__ == "__main__": parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="A sample netflow collector.") parser.add_argument("--host", type=str, default="0.0.0.0", help="collector listening address") parser.add_argument("--port", "-p", type=int, default=2055, help="collector listener port") parser.add_argument("--file", "-o", type=str, dest="output_file", default="{}.gz".format(int(time.time())), help="collector export multiline JSON file") parser.add_argument("--debug", "-D", action="store_true", help="Enable debug output") args = parser.parse_args() logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, stream=sys.stdout, format="%(message)s") if args.debug: logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) try: # With every parsed flow a new line is appended to the output file. In previous versions, this was implemented # by storing the whole data dict in memory and dumping it regularly onto disk. This was extremely fragile, as # it a) consumed a lot of memory and CPU (dropping packets since storing one flow took longer than the arrival # of the next flow) and b) broke the exported JSON file, if the collector crashed during the write process, # rendering all collected flows during the runtime of the collector useless (the file contained one large JSON # dict which represented the 'data' dict). # In this new approach, each received flow is parsed as usual, but it gets appended to a gzipped file each time. # All in all, this improves in three aspects: # 1. collected flow data is not stored in memory any more # 2. received and parsed flows are persisted reliably # 3. the disk usage of files with JSON and its full strings as keys is reduced by using gzipped files # This also means that the files have to be handled differently, because they are gzipped and not formatted as # one single big JSON dump, but rather many little JSON dumps, separated by line breaks. for ts, client, export in get_export_packets(args.host, args.port): entry = {ts: { "client": client, "flows": [flow.data for flow in export.flows]} } line = json.dumps(entry).encode() + b"\n" # byte encoded line with gzip.open(args.output_file, "ab") as fh: # open as append, not reading the whole file fh.write(line) except KeyboardInterrupt: logger.info("Received KeyboardInterrupt, passing through") pass