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Much of Bro’s capabilities originate in academic research projects, with results often published at top-tier conferences. Bro supports a wide range of analyses through its scripting language. Yet even without further customization it comes with a powerful set of features.

  • Feature

    • Runs on commodity hardware on standard UNIX-style systems (including Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS).
    • Fully passive traffic analysis off a network tap or monitoring port.
    • Standard libpcap interface for capturing packets.
    • Real-time and offline analysis.
    • Cluster-support for large-scale deployments.
    • Unified management framework for operating both standalone and cluster setups.
    • Open-source under a BSD license.
    • Support for many application-layer protocols (including DNS, FTP, HTTP, IRC, SMTP, SSH, SSL).
    • Default output to well-structured ASCII logs.
    • Real-time integration of external input into analyses. Live database input in preparation.
    • External C library for exchanging Bro events with external programs. Comes with Perl, Python, and Ruby bindings.

    To install on Debian:

    1- sudo apt-get install cmake make gcc g++ flex bison libpcap-dev libssl-dev python-dev swig zlib1g-dev

    2- download from https://www.bro.org/download/index.html and extract it in VM machine.OR git clone –recursive git://git.bro.org/bro

    3- just like picture configure it
    ./configure

    4- Then type : make
    5- Then type : sudo make install
    6- Copy path to Bro install folder :
    nano ~/.bashrc
    add this line in the end of file
    export PATH=/usr/local/bro/bin:$PATH

    7-Config your node interface .
    sudo nano /usr/local/bro/etc/node.cfg

    
    [bro]
    type=standalone
    host=localhost
    interface=eth0

    *Note: You can define two or more network here. The name [bro] can be change for yourself as an option.

    8-Now change the directory and go to Desktop and make your user super user with sudo -s . Then type broctl
    9- in [BrotControl] start for starting bro | stop for stopping bro | nodes show number of nodes | status shows the name of node and bro
    Hamidreza Talebi

    * for Starting service always in [BroControl] first install then type start

  • if you get an error, you should define your network adapter in this file:
    nano /usr/local/bro/etc/networks.cfg
  • These are other files for your configuration:
    nano /usr/local/bro/etc/networks.cfg
    nano /usr/local/bro/etc/node.cfg

Go to this link for more information:
https://www.bro.org/sphinx/components/broctl/README.html

Log files by default is located in this path:

/usr/local/bro/logs/

with zcat command you can read logs but there are also some techniques you can boost your report. follow this link:

useful links for installing on server:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-bro-on-ubuntu-16-04