Octopussy Plugin Howto

In Octopussy, Plugins are modules that can modify Octopussy Reports input & output.

One Plugin is defined with 2 files:

• the Desciption file
• the Code file

Plugin Description File

This file is located in plugins directory. (by default, it is /var/lib/octopussy/conf/plugins/)

It defines the Plugin Name and its Functions.

Example for the NETWORK Plugin Description file (/var/lib/octopussy/conf/plugins/Network.xml):

<octopussy_plugin name="NETWORK">
    <function label="MASK_8"
        perl="Octopussy::Plugin::Network::Mask_8"
        source="OUTPUT">
        <field_type>IP_ADDR</field_type>
    </function>
    <function label="MASK_16"
        perl="Octopussy::Plugin::Network::Mask_16"
        source="OUTPUT">
        <field_type>IP_ADDR</field_type>
    </function>
    <function label="MASK_24"
        perl="Octopussy::Plugin::Network::Mask_24"
        source="OUTPUT">
    <field_type>IP_ADDR</field_type>
    </function>
    <function label="RIPE_INFO"
        perl="Octopussy::Plugin::Network::Ripe_Info"
        source="OUTPUT">
    <field_type>IP_ADDR</field_type>
    </function>
</octopussy_plugin>

For each functions, you can define 3 or 4 elements:

• label: the name that will be displayed in WebUI
• perl: the perl function to execute when this function is found
• field or field_type: respectively the field (ex: Netscreen_IDP:subcategory) or the type of field (ex: IP_ADDR, NUMBER…) on which you can apply this function
• source: indicates if the function works on input data (before SQL inserting) or output data (after SQL querying)

Plugin Code File

This file is located in /usr/share/perl5/Octopussy/Plugin/ directory.

It defines perl code to handle data.

Example for the NETWORK Plugin Code file (/usr/share/perl5/Octopussy/Plugin/Network.pm):

=head1 NAME

Octopussy::Plugin::Network - Octopussy Plugin Network

=cut
package Octopussy::Plugin::Network;

use strict;
use Octopussy;

my %services = ();

=head1 FUNCTIONS

=head2 Init()

=cut

sub Init()
{
    my $conf_port = AAT::List::Configuration("AAT_Port");

    foreach my $i (AAT::ARRAY($conf_port->{item}))
        { $services{$i->{value}} =  $i->{label}; }
}

=head2 Mask_8($addr)

Only shows the first 8 bits of an IP address (--> 10.XXX.XXX.XXX)

=cut

sub Mask_8($)
{
    my $addr = shift;

    $addr =~ s/(\d+)\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+/$1.XXX.XXX.XXX/;

    return ($addr);
}

[...]

=head2 Service($port)

=cut

sub Service($)
{
    my $port = shift;

    return ($services{$port} || $port);
}

1;

=head1 AUTHOR

Sebastien Thebert <octo.devel@gmail.com>

=cut

Init function is called before any ‘data manipulation’ function.

It can be used to initialize data that can be used by any ‘data manipulation’ function.