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NAME

AMinerRemoteControl - lightweight tool for log checking, log analysis

SYNOPSIS

AMinerRemoteControl --ControlSocket socket [--Exec code] [--ExecFile file] [--Data data] [--StringResponse]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the AMinerRemoteControl command. The command executes arbitrary remote control commands in a running AMiner child process. As child process is usually running with lowered privileges or SELinux/AppArmor confinement, you may observe unexpected results when accessing resources outside the child process, e.g. files. For more details see also packaged documentation at /usr/share/doc/logdata-anomaly-miner.

Example usecases:

Just a test: /usr/bin/AMinerRemoteControl --Data '["Some text", 123]' --Exec 'remoteControlResponse="It works! Data %s" % repr(remoteControlData)'

Query remote module configuration: /usr/bin/AMinerRemoteControl --Exec 'remoteControlResponse=analysisContext.getRegisteredComponentIds()'

OPTIONS

with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the info(1) files.

--ControlSocket socket

Specify the Unix domain remote control socket path, otherwise /var/run/aminer-remote.socket is used. The socket is opened by AMiner when 'RemoteControlSocket' feature is enabled in configuration. As the socket is of SOCK_STREAM type, it may also be forwarded via any other stream forwarders, e.g. socat (see UNIX-CONNECT and UNIX-LISTEN) and SSH (see LocalForward, DynamicForward). Access control is only done by file system permissions (DAC) of the socket, so make sure not to widen the access on error.

--Exec code

For each --Exec option, the next argument is sent in a separate remote execution request using additional execution data (see --Data). The code is executed in a separate separate execution namespace with only some variables added to the local namespace, e.g. execution data is available as 'remoteControlData'. When setting the local variable 'remoteControlResponse' within the executed code, the object is serialized using json and sent back in the response.

--ExecFile file

For each --ExecFile option, the named file is loaded and content submitted in the very same way as if --Exec parameter with content as string would have been used.

--Data data

This parameter defines a json string defining Python objects, that will be sent with all subsequent --Exec operations until changed again using another --Data option. Take into account, that there are size limits for the request, very large data objects may exceed those limits. The execution context will expose the data as variable 'remoteControlData'.

--StringResponse

When set, AMinerRemoteControl will not pass the result to repr. The returned object is just converted to a plain string via str(object) and the result is printed to avoid escaping of quotation marks, newlines, .... WARNING: This might be insecure: without escaping the printed data may contain terminal control sequences to exploit vulnerabilities or misconfiguration of your terminal to execute code with privileges of terminal or the process calling AMinerRemoteControl (usually root).

FILES

/var/run/aminer-remote.socket

This is the default remote control socket used when not changed using the --ControlSocket option.

BUGS

Report bugs via your distribution's bug tracking system. For bugs in the the software trunk, report via at https://bugs.launchpad.net/logdata-anomaly-miner/+filebug.

SEE ALSO

AMiner(1)

AUTHOR

Roman Fiedler <roman.fiedler@ait.ac.at>

Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2016 Roman Fiedler

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

05/30/2017 logdata-anomaly-miner