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NAME

App::Spoor - A CPanel client for the Spoor service

VERSION

Version 0.07

SYNOPSIS

This module (for now) only contains code to provide a naive implementation of a client for the Spoor API that plays nicely with CPanel.

It is built with the following principles in mind:

  • Minimise the impact of the code on the existing CPanel instance

  • Minimise the footprint on the host, by keeping the dependencies to a bare minimum

  • Be as transparent as possible about the data that is being submitted

Within the above context, App::Spoor consists of 3 main parts:

  • Scripts running under systemd that tail the CPanel access, error and login logs

  • A transmitter script (also running under systemd) that communicates with the Spoor API

  • A module that registers functionality for tracking changes to mail forwarding within the CPanel standardised hook framework

Installing

Before installing the module, you will need to enable the logging of successful logins via WHM. At the time of writing, this can be found by navigating to Server Configuration -> Tweak Settings -> Logging.

Once you have installed the module run the following from the commandline:

    spoor_installer

It will setup a config file, some persistence directories, a number of systemd unit files and it will also create the file that will register functionality against CPanel's standardised hooks.

Once it has completed, it will list a number of actions that must be performed (as root)before the installation is complete:

    systemctl enable spoor-access-follower.service
    systemctl enable spoor-error-follower.service
    systemctl enable spoor-login-follower.service
    systemctl enable spoor-transmitter.service
    systemctl start spoor-access-follower.service
    systemctl start spoor-error-follower.service
    systemctl start spoor-login-follower.service
    systemctl start spoor-transmitter.service
    cd /usr/local/cpanel/bin/
    ./manage_hooks add module SpoorForwardHook

The install script will create a number of directories, a config file for Spoor as well as several systemd unit files.

Operation

App::Spoor operates on a simple principe of tailing CPanel's access, error and login log files. The follower services monitor the log files and if they come across an item of interest, they create a JSON-representation of the event and write it to /var/lib/spoor/parsed.

The transmitter service monitors /var/lib/spoor/parsed for any changes and sends these to the Spoor API. If a transmission recives a response of HTTP 202, the JSON file is moved to /var/lib/spoor/transmitted, otherwise it remains in /var/lib/spoor/parsed and the transmitter will keep on retrying, pretty much until the end of time.

Reporting

Spoor provides rudimentary reporting functionality that can be accessed from the commandline. This functionality distinguished between reports (a report is created by the Spoor API when data is received) and mailbox events ( a mailbox event is created once the report has been parsed).

    spoor_report_list #List the most recent reports for the current host
    spoor_mailbox_event_list #List the most recent mailbox events for the current host

Uninstalling

To uninstall,do the following (the below assumes that you are using cpanminus):

    cd /usr/local/cpanel/bin/
    ./manage_hooks delete module SpoorForwardHook

    systemctl stop spoor-access-follower.service
    systemctl stop spoor-error-follower.service
    systemctl stop spoor-login-follower.service
    systemctl stop spoor-transmitter.service
    systemctl disable spoor-access-follower.service
    systemctl disable spoor-error-follower.service
    systemctl disable spoor-login-follower.service
    systemctl disable spoor-transmitter.service

    rm -rf /etc/spoor
    rm -rf /var/lib/spoor

    cpanm --uninstall App::Spoor

Windows

For now, App::Spoor does not support Windows installations.

AUTHOR

Rory McKinley, <rorymckinley at capefox.co>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-app-spoor at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=App-Spoor. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc App::Spoor

You can also look for information at:

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2019 Rory McKinley.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0

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