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Man page of OUTPUTPBNJ.MAN.1

OUTPUTPBNJ.MAN.1

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (1p)
Updated: 2011-08-19
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NAME

OutputPBNJ - a program to query a PBNJ 2.0 database.

SYNOPSIS

outputpbnj [Query Options] [Database Options] [General Options]

DESCRIPTION

OutputPBNJ uses a query yaml config file to execute queries against
the PBNJ 2.0 database. OutputPBNJ returns the result in various
output types (csv, tab and html).

Apart of PBNJ 2.0 suite of tools to monitor changes on a network.

OPTIONS

Usage: outputpbnj [Query Options] [Config Options] [General Options]
Query Options:
   -q  --query <name>     Perform sql query
   -t  --type <type>      Output Type [csv,tab,html]
   -f  --file <file>      Store the result in file otherwise stdout
       --both             Print results and store them in a file
       --dir <dir>        Store the result in this directory [def .]

   -l  --lookup <name>    Lookup description based on name
       --list             List of names and descriptions
   -n  --name             Lookup all the names
   -d  --desc             Lookup all the descriptions
   -s  --sql              Lookup all the sql queries

Config Options:
        --qconfig <file>  Config of sql queries [def query.yaml]
        --dbconfig <file> Config for accessing database [def config.yaml]
        --dbdir <dir>     Directory for Config file [def .]

        --data <file>     SQLite Database override [def data.dbl]

General Options:
       --test <level>     Test Level
       --debug <level>    Verbose information
   -v  --version          Display version
   -h  --help             Display this information

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THINGS TO NOTE

* OutputPBNJ requires root privileges to query a database that is
owned by root. Thus, if you are scanning with ScanPBNJ you will need
to run OutputPBNJ with root privileges to access the database.

* If there are configs in the current directory, they are used
instead of those in the user's config directory.

Query Options

-q --query <name> Perform sql query

This option is where the actual query is specified. Therefore, once
you know the query you wish to use simply pass it as an argument to
this option.

-t --type <type> Output Type [csv,tab,html]

This options is used to specify which output format you wish to use.
For example, if you would like to have output that you can show
someone else the CSV format is useful because you can simply pull the
file into OpenOffice Calc or Excel as it is a comma delimited file.

-f --file <file>

This option is used to specifiy output to a file rather than standard
output. This is useful if you want to grow the results of queries as
the result will be added onto the end of the file.

--both

This option is used when you want both output to standard output, as
well as to a file. This will save the result to a file if you are
having the result sent to the screen or piped to your email which you
may or may not disregard.

--dir <dir> Store the result in this directory [default .]

This option is used with the writing to a file. This option will
store the file in a alternative directory than the current directory.

-l --lookup <name>

This options is used to lookup the description of a specific query.
This will return the description of the query.

--list List of names and descriptions

This option is used to return a list of all the queries with the
names and descriptions. This is very useful when you are starting to
use OutputPBNJ or using a new query config.

-n --name

This option is used to print the all the query names.

-d --desc

This option is used to print the all the query descriptions. This is
useful to find out all the queries do.

-s --sql

This option is used to print the all the queries. This is useful for
developing new queries based on other queries.

Config Options

--qconfig <file>

Config of sql queries [default query.yaml]

This option is used to specify an alternative query.yaml file.

--dbconfig <file>

Config for accessing results database [default config.yaml]

This option is used to specify an alternative config.yaml file.

--dbdir <dir>

Directory for Config file [default .]

This option is used to specify an alternative directory for the
config.yaml file.

GENERAL OPTIONS

--test <level>

Increases the Test level, causing OutputPBNJ to print testing
information about the Query. Using the Test level is mostly only
using for testing. This will also print the debugging information so
it can get rather lengthy. The greater the Test level the more output
will be given.

This option is also used for reporting bugs. All bug reports should
be submitted using --test 1 and an additional report may be needed
depending on the issue

--debug <level>

Increases the Debug level, causing OutputPBNJ to print more
information about the query in progress. The higher the debug leve
the more output the user will receive.

-v --version

Prints the OutputPBNJ version number and exits.

-h --help Display this information

Prints a help screen with the command flags.
Running OutputPBNJ without any arguments does the same thing.

FILES

PBNJ's data files are stored in ScanPBNJ and OutputPBNJ. When either
of these programs is run the configuration files will be generated
for the user if they do not already exists and placed in the
$HOME/.pbnj-2.0 directory. Again, if there is a configuration file in
the current directory it is used instead of the version in the
configuration directory.

$HOME/.pbnj-2.0/config.yaml - holds settings for connecting to the
database which store the information from PBNJ scans.

$HOME/.pbnj-2.0/query.yaml - lists all queries that can be used to
retrieve information from the database. Also, includes the name and
description for each query. This is only generated when you executed
OutputPBNJ.

For Windows, the pbnj-2.0 config directory is in the APPDATA
directory, which contains both config.yaml and query.yaml. Depending
on your environment, the APPDATA directory may be a different location
from other environments. Therefore, when the configs are executed for
the first time they will display the path where the configs were
generated.

QUERY

The query.yaml file contains the list of various names, descriptions
and sql queries that can be executed by OutputPBNJ.

Here is one example:

- name: vulnssh
   desc: list all of the services that have old ssh running
   sql: |-
    select S.updated_on,M.ip,S.service,S.port,S.version from services
    as S, machines as M where service='ssh' and state='up' and
    version!='4.1p1'

This examples shows how the name, description and sql are layed out in
the yaml format. Therefore, we know the name of the query is vulnssh
and it's purpose is to list SSH servers which are not running
a version 4.1p1. It is very easy to create another script that would
check for the latest version of a given service and therefore the
user would be able to verify that that particular service needed to
be updated on the machine that was scanned.

FEATURE REQUESTS

Any feature requests should be reported to the online
feature-request-tracking system available on the web at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=149390&atid=774489
Before requesting a feature, please check to see if the features has
already been requested.

BUG REPORTS

Any bugs found should be reported to the online bug-tracking system
available on the web at :
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=149390&atid=774488.
Before reporting bugs, please check to see if the bug has already been
reported.

When reporting PBNJ bugs, it is important to include a reliable way
to reproduce the bug, version number of PBNJ and Nmap, OS
name and version, and any relevant hardware specs. And of course,
patches to rectify the bug are even better.

SUPPORTED DATABASES

The following databases are supported:

* SQLite [default]
* MySQL
* Postgres
* CSV

DATABASE SCHEMA

The following is the SQLite version of the database schema:

CREATE TABLE machines (
            mid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
            ip TEXT,
            host TEXT,
            localh INTEGER,
            os TEXT,
            machine_created TEXT,
            created_on TEXT);
CREATE TABLE services (
            mid INTEGER,
            service TEXT,
            state TEXT,
            port INTEGER,
            protocol TEXT,
            version TEXT,
            banner TEXT,
            machine_updated TEXT,
            updated_on TEXT);

AUTHORS

Joshua D. Abraham ( jabra@ccs.neu.edu )

LEGAL NOTICES

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details at
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html, or in the COPYING file included
with PBNJ.

It should also be noted that PBNJ has occasionally been known to crash
poorly written applications, TCP/IP stacks, and even operating systems.
While this is extremely rare, it is important to keep in mind. PBNJ
should never be run against mission critical systems unless you are
prepared to suffer downtime. We acknowledge here that PBNJ may crash
your systems or networks and we disclaim all liability for any damage
or problems PBNJ could cause.