Tideway Community Forum

Encryption between a credential slave and remote target.

2008-12-15T18:28:50+00:00

Traffic between appliance and slave is encrypted. Is it possible to encrypt traffic between a credential slave being in the same DMZ as the appliance but the target server being in a separate dmz? In this deployment we are specifically, for security reasons not hosting the slave in the same dmz as the target server.

Using Tideway v7.1.1.

Can I load switch information from a file?

2009-01-06T14:44:26+00:00

For reasons to tedious to go into, I cannot read the switch configuration and port information directly from the network switchs (all Cisco). I can get the standard Cisco report commands, e.g. Show Port, run and the output passed to me.

Is there any way of loading this information into the Tideway object database?

How do I do time-related arithmetic

2009-01-02T16:33:42+00:00

I’d like to do some simple arithmetic on times in a pattern.

The times I am working with are the starttime attributes from DiscoveryAccess nodes.

I’ve borrowed some constants from another posting here so I have a pattern that has something like the following:

constants
    ONE_SECOND := 10000000;
    ONE_MINUTE := 60 * ONE_SECOND;
    ONE_HOUR := 60 * ONE_MINUTE;
    ONE_DAY := 24 * ONE_HOUR;
  end constants; 

And in the body (assume “now” and “then” contain some suitable values) I take the difference between two times:


delta := now - then;

I can print


delta

using log() and get a nicely formatted time, but I’d like to manipulate it, perhaps like this:

hours := delta / ONE_HOUR;
days := delta / ONE_DAY; 

I’m aware that TPL does only integer arithmetic so I’ll miss the fractions, but that’s fine here. Unfortunately, I the following error:

Error while executing a rule -- TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for //: 'DateTimeDelta' and 'long' 

This makes it clear (I think) that my delta object is actually of type DateTimeDelta and that days and hours in my example are of type long but it leaves me stuck. Can I do a coercion or type conversion to turn the DateTimeDelta into a long?

XPath.Evaluate() Problems on Foundation 7.1.7 Community

2008-12-23T13:03:39+00:00

I want to do some advanced Xpath queries against BEA Config.xml files

No matter how I try – I cannot even simple queries to work for me

I’ve confirmed various queries are valid using various xpath testing tools

and tried using data from both ‘file.content’ and simple strings

No joy :-(

Here’s a simple snippet that returns nothing – regardless of the query used

config_file := “”“
<Employees>
<Employee ID=‘1’>
<Name>Bill</Name>
<Employee ID=‘2’>
<Name>John</Name>
</Employees>
“”“ ;

log.info(”config_file“); // Yup all ok

xpath_query_results := xpath.evaluate(config_file, raw”/Employees/Employee”);

for xpath_query_result in xpath_query_results do

log.info(”xpath_query_result“); // Zilch logged

end for;

I’m developing offline using community version 7.1.7 but using 7.1.1 Business Edition online.

Is this possible a ‘feature’ in the Community Version or am I missing something really basic ? ( probably ! )

Many thanks

Kevin

How does Tideway look for HBAs on AIX?

2008-12-16T17:49:19+00:00

I am getting some limited information on Solaris servers. That is down to permissioning issues and I can fix that.

There doesn’t seem to be a script for HBA’s in the AIX discovery script. Is Tideway even looking?

search for objects with null relationships

2008-12-18T17:21:03+00:00

Tideway 7.1.7

What is the best way to search for objects that don’t have a particular relationship?
e.g. 1 Hosts with no HBA
e.g. 2 Hosts with no defined location

Current Time Format

2008-12-16T18:50:51+00:00

Hi,
How can I change the date in the following query from 2008-10-12 to currenttime-1?
Equivalent to sysdate-1 as in SQL

SEARCH Host where name like ‘abc’ show * PROCESS WITH displayHistory(parseTime(“2008-10-12”), currentTime(), 1)

Regards,
Lalith

LMViews

2008-12-15T19:31:24+00:00

Hi,
When we create a view in Tideway say for example:

Host Only:

requires Host where name = ‘abcd’, my understanding is an alert will be triggered everytime any attribute of the Host (as defined in the taxonomy) changes. Is my understanding correct? Also if it is, how can I gather information about the attribute that changed? So if the RAM increased from 512 mb to 1024 mb, when I run the query Search LMView show * will the attribute that changed show up? If my understanding is incorrect, can someone explain how this works?

Regards,
Lalith

Observed Communication - Host view, for more than 20 hosts

2008-10-07T13:12:15+00:00

Is it possible to create a “Observed Communication – Host view” for more than 20 host?

In a host record, one can choose the “Observed Communication – Host view” visualisation. But it only shows the connections of upto 20 hosts.
I have a bunch of hosts that form an application chain and I would like to know the observed communication for all these hosts togethher. Does anybody have any suggestions?
How do I query the communicating servers?

Credential slaves

2008-12-02T13:08:00+00:00

Hi,

I’m trying Tideway foundation community edition in my lab, for the moment.
Discovery is ok for Linux boxes.
I set up a windows credential slave. Its status is connected in the slave management page. There is no firewall on the windows server, neither between the tideway appliance and the windows.
I’ve created a credential “administrator” (administrateur, in fact. I’m french.) in the credentials list with only “windows” access. I tested it with the IP of my slave, it is ok. I have no other windows boxes for the moment but I guess the slave should be able to discover itself.

All discovery status for this windows box are “No Access”.
There must be something I did wrong, but what ?