Welcome to Corelight for Splunk Apps documentation!

Overview

About Corelight For Splunk

About Corelight For Splunk

Corelight For Splunk allows a Splunk Enterprise administrator to extract information and knowledge from Bro data via the Corelight Sensor appliance or open-source Bro

Scripts and binaries

This App provides the following scripts:

• None

Release notes

• Bug

  • [CL-42] - Conn data does not always display service

• Improvement

  • [CL-43] - Panel Rename
  • [CL-44] - Update sparkline
  • [CL-45] - Dashboard Search Optimizations

• New Feature

  • [CL-3] - Custom Icons
  • [CL-5] - Build Eventgen
  • [CL-6] - Overview Dashboard
  • [CL-11] - CIM Mapping
  • [CL-17] - Workflow Action
  • [CL-18] - HTTP Dashboard
  • [CL-19] - DNS Dashboard

• Improvement

  • [CL-10] - Documentation
  • [CL-21] - Improve HTTP Dashboard
  • [CL-22] - Overview Updates
  • [CL-23] - Overview Dashboard
  • [CL-24] - Connections Page - Revise
  • [CL-25] - DNS Dashboard - Revise
  • [CL-26] - Files Dashboard - Revise
  • [CL-27] - SSL Dashboard
  • [CL-28] - Software Dashboard
  • [CL-29] - Connections Revision
  • [CL-30] - DNS Revisions
  • [CL-31] - Files Revisions
  • [CL-32] - HTTP Revisions
  • [CL-33] - Software Revisions
  • [CL-34] - Dashboard Improvements
  • [CL-35] - Dashboards
  • [CL-36] - Minor Edits and Updates
  • [CL-38] - Documentation
  • [CL-40] - Tags
  • [CL-41] - Additional Dashboard Changes

• Sub-task

  • [CL-14] - Corelight Connection
  • [CL-15] - Corelight SSL
  • [CL-16] - Corelight File

About this release

Version 1.0.1 of Corelight For Splunk is compatible with:

Compatability

Known Issues

Version 1.0.1 of Corelight For Splunk has the following known issues:

• None

Support and resources

Questions and answers

Access questions and answers specific to Corelight For Splunk at https://answers.splunk.com . Be sure to tag your question with the App.

Support

• Support Email: appsupport@corelight.io
• Support Website: https://www.corelight.com/support
• Support Offered: Email, Web

Support is available via email at appsupport@corelight.io. Responses vary on working days between working hours. Find the latest information about the App and integration on the support website.

Installation and Configuration

Software requirements

Splunk Enterprise system requirements

Because this App runs on Splunk Enterprise, all of the Splunk Enterprise system requirements at https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Installation/Systemrequirements apply.

Download

Download Corelight For Splunk at https://splunkbase.splunk.com/.

Installation steps

NOTE: Where referenced, TA-CorelightForSplunk is located on Splunkbase.

Deploy to single server instance

Follow these steps to install the app in a single server instance of Splunk Enterprise:

1. Deploy as you would any App, and restart Splunk. Do NOT install the TA.

Deploy to Splunk Cloud

1. Have your Splunk Cloud Support handle this installation.

Deploy to a Distributed Environment

1. For each Search Head in the environment, deploy the App. DO NOT SEND TA to a Search Head Cluster (SHC).
2. For each indexer in the environment, deploy a copy of the |ta_name| Add-On that is located as mentioned above.

User Guide

Key concepts for Corelight For Splunk

Configure TA-CorelightForSplunk for use with Corelight.

1. TA-CorelightForSplunk should be placed upon the servers that will get the forwarded data from the Corelight Sensor.
2. Questions should be asked at https://www.corelight.com/support

Indexes

By default all events will be written to the main index. You should change the index in the configuration files to match your specific index.

Troubleshoot Corelight For Splunk

1. Check the Monitoring Console (>=v6.5) for errors

Lookups

Corelight For Splunk contains several lookup files.

• port_descriptions - Gives port descriptions to ports.
• corelight_systems - Auto-generated from sensor data
• corelight_services - Auto-generated from services data
• corelight_dns_ports - Auto-generated from DNS data
• corelight_dns_record_types - Auto-generated from NDS data
• corelight_files_mime_types - Auto-generated from files data
• corelight_software_types - Auto-generated from software data

Event Generator

Corelight For Splunk does make use of an event generator. This allows the product to display data, when there are no inputs configured.

The stanzas are:

• conn.json.sample
• metrics_disk.json.sample
• files.json.sample
• metrics_memory.json.sample
• metrics_system.json.sample
• metrics_iface.json.sample
• metrics_bro.json.sample
• http.json.sample

Acceleration

1. Summary Indexing: No
2. Data Model Acceleration: No
3. Report Acceleration: No