by Jon Siwek | Dec 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
What follows is an overview of the existing Zeek package ecosystem. Nothing new, but hopefully a fresh description of the big picture can help guide those less familiar or generally fill in gaps. What are packages? Zeek packages contain scripts and plugins that...
by Jon Siwek | Mar 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Current State of Affairs A near-term item on the Zeek Roadmap is to provide an alternative, and eventual successor, to BroControl. For context on why that’s the case, there’s the following pain points: Process supervision in an external tool/process...
by Jon Siwek | Oct 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
Bro’s New Package Manager After a long period of being on Bro’s development projects wishlist, Bro now has a working prototype of a package management tool. The idea behind it is to provide Bro users with a command-line tool, bro-pkg, that they can...
by Jon Siwek | Jul 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Bro bug/issue tracker at http://tracker.bro.org has been migrated from Trac to a JIRA instance hosted by Atlassian (you’ll notice the former URL now redirects to https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net). A couple new things that JIRA facilitates and may...