Linux Boot Analyzer

A program for analyzing Linux startup units and their traits, with a backend server for storing and querying the results.

Free software: MIT license
Documentation: https://linux-boot-analyzer.readthedocs.io.

Overview

The collector

The collector is the part which runs on the target machine and actually collects the data from the client.

It needs python 3 and has no external dependencies. This is by design - so if a pull request adds external dependencies it will be automatically rejected. This program is meant to run on Linux .

To see it's usage run collector.py -h. At the time of writing:

ssh://dude500@34.76.30.202:22/usr/bin/python3 -u /tmp/pycharm_project_410/linux_boot_analyzer/collector/collector.py -h
usage: collector.py [-h] {print,file} ...

Analyze linux boot unit files. Run me on the machine which you want to analyze!

optional arguments:
  -h, --help    show this help message and exit

output:
  {print,file}  Choose where to output the result to
    print       Print to standard output (useful for debugging).
    file        Write to local file.

The server

Well, it ought to get POST requests from the clients and push them into our DB. Hasn't been tested in prod yet, so hasn't been developed properly yet.

To run it: 1) Create a secret.ini file with a password key in the postgres section, like this:

[postgresql]
password=PUT_DATABASE_PASSWORD_HERE

Run it as a flask app, like this:

FLASK_APP = linux_boot_analyzer/analysis_repo/repo_server.py
FLASK_ENV = development
FLASK_DEBUG = 0
In folder F:/code/guardicore/linux-boot-analyzer
C:\Users\Shay\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\python.exe -m flask run --host 0.0.0.0 --port 80
 * Serving Flask app "linux_boot_analyzer/analysis_repo/repo_server.py"
 * Environment: development
 * Debug mode: off
 * Running on http://0.0.0.0:80/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

The DB

Here to answer all your Business questions like "How many Machines have we run on?" or "how many different /etc/init.d/networking files are out there??".

The DB is hosted on Google Cloud SQL (https://status.cloud.google.com/ ).

See connection details in the relevant .ini files, but you need to know the password to query it. I'll never tell ;)

Future

See https://github.com/TheCoreMan/linux-boot-analyzer/projects/1 for features that will be added, or not, or maybe.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

TheCoreMan / linux-boot-analyzer