[Oisf-users] Suricata startup error - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_INITIALIZATION(45)]
Peter Manev
petermanev at gmail.com
Sun Mar 3 10:51:20 UTC 2013
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Benson Mathews <benson.mathews at gmail.com>wrote:
> Alright, So I guess the second interface line was a miss config. I had
> copy that part from the previous Suricata 1.2 setup that was build by
> someone else who no longer works in my group.
>
> And i'm trying to test the new version for monitoring upto 10G traffic. I
> not really familiar the different runmodes and its benefits. Whats the
> default mode, would you says its efficient to run it in worker? Would that
> help reduce the CPU usage?
>
> My current stats:
> CPU (avg): 40%
> PF-Ring stats for Suricata:
> Tot Packets : 11294652219
> Tot Pkt Lost : 1588411
>
These stats - on what kind of traffic do you have that - 2Gbps ?
>
> Thanks,
> Benson
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Duarte Silva <
>> duarte.silva at serializing.me> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> I would say it only makes sense that if he is running Suricata in
>>> workers mode.
>>>
>> I thought that was the case...
>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Duarte Silva
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Benson Mathews <
>>>> benson.mathews at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes I did verify if the process was running through ps and top.and I
>>>>> also tried commenting the echo altogether and had no luck.
>>>>>
>>>>> This time i edited the config file to enable logging to the file and
>>>>> removed the sleep and commented the echo statement again. And extra logging
>>>>> in the suricata.log file indicated that the path to my threshold.config
>>>>> file was incorrect. So I updated that part and now it seems to start the
>>>>> process correctly.
>>>>>
>>>>> My avg CPU (16 processors, E5520 @ 2.27GHz and 48G RAM) has jumped
>>>>> from 12% to 50%. I have around 8k emerging threat rules enabled and
>>>>> monitoring a 2Gbps feed. I have it setup with PF_RING 5.3
>>>>>
>>>>> pfring:
>>>>> - interface: eth2,eth3
>>>>> threads: 1
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would suggest "threads: 16" , since you have 16 cores.
>>>>
>>>> interface: eth2,eth3
>>>>>
>>>> why do you have 2 interfaces twice ?
>>>>
>>>>> cluster-id: 99
>>>>> cluster-type: cluster_round_robin
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> top - 19:23:58 up 1 day, 2:05, 1 user, load average: 2.85, 3.46,
>>>>> 2.96
>>>>> Tasks: 330 total, 21 running, 309 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
>>>>> Cpu0 : 53.0%us, 19.5%sy, 1.3%ni, 24.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 1.7%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu1 : 41.6%us, 24.0%sy, 2.2%ni, 30.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 1.6%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu2 : 44.1%us, 18.0%sy, 1.3%ni, 34.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 2.3%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu3 : 36.5%us, 22.8%sy, 1.6%ni, 36.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 2.9%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu4 : 54.3%us, 11.8%sy, 2.8%ni, 29.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 2.1%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu5 : 48.2%us, 11.7%sy, 0.7%ni, 37.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 2.3%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu6 : 51.5%us, 15.6%sy, 1.4%ni, 30.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 1.4%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu7 : 57.5%us, 11.0%sy, 1.0%ni, 27.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 2.9%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu8 : 45.8%us, 32.3%sy, 0.3%ni, 15.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 6.2%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu9 : 42.0%us, 22.5%sy, 1.7%ni, 31.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 2.0%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu10 : 42.7%us, 22.2%sy, 2.6%ni, 30.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 2.3%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu11 : 35.0%us, 22.0%sy, 2.5%ni, 36.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 4.3%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu12 : 48.7%us, 12.6%sy, 1.3%ni, 32.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 5.0%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu13 : 50.6%us, 9.0%sy, 1.0%ni, 34.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 4.5%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu14 : 48.2%us, 15.4%sy, 1.0%ni, 30.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 4.5%si, 0.0%st
>>>>> Cpu15 : 42.3%us, 16.7%sy, 2.5%ni, 34.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
>>>>> 4.1%si, 0.0%st
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much for helping me with this! Atleast I have it
>>>>> started now, need to work on tuning it.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Benson
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Duarte Silva <
>>>>> duarte.silva at serializing.me> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> did you try to check if Suricata is running using ps? It might be
>>>>>> that you are echoing a empty PID to the file after the sleep. I would
>>>>>> remove lines all together as Suricata creates the file anyway.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Another thing is, since you are running using daemon mode you sould
>>>>>> enable the suricata.log. In the configuration file, search for console, you
>>>>>> will see some logging options, enable the one for file logging.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Duarte Silva
>>>>>> On 26 Feb 2013 22:44, "Benson Mathews" <benson.mathews at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> just tried running the suricata bin file directly with the same
>>>>>>> options.... same result.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Benson Mathews <
>>>>>>> benson.mathews at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thank you for the quick response Duarte!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I tried comment the line that wrote the PID to the PIDFILE in my
>>>>>>>> init.d script (also tried using a sleep 2 without commenting). This is time
>>>>>>>> there is no error on the start.log but when i check the service status it
>>>>>>>> says PID file /var/run/suricata.pid exists, but process not running!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> init.d script:
>>>>>>>> NAME=suricata
>>>>>>>> DAEMON=/usr/local/suricata/current/bin/$NAME
>>>>>>>> SURCONF=/etc/suricata/suricata.yaml
>>>>>>>> PIDFILE=/var/run/suricata.pid
>>>>>>>> IDMODE=pfring
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> SURICATA_OPTIONS=" -c $SURCONF --pidfile $PIDFILE --pfring -D"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> case "$1" in
>>>>>>>> start)
>>>>>>>> if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
>>>>>>>> PID1=`cat $PIDFILE`
>>>>>>>> if kill -0 "$PID1" 2>/dev/null; then
>>>>>>>> echo "$NAME is already running with PID $PID1"
>>>>>>>> exit 0
>>>>>>>> fi
>>>>>>>> fi
>>>>>>>> echo -n "Starting suricata in $IDMODE mode..."
>>>>>>>> $DAEMON $SURICATA_OPTIONS >
>>>>>>>> /var/log/suricata/suricata-start.log 2>&1 &
>>>>>>>> PID1=$!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> sleep 2 ### JUST ADDED
>>>>>>>> echo "$PID1" > $PIDFILE
>>>>>>>> echo " done."
>>>>>>>> ;;
>>>>>>>> -------
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> cat /var/log/suricata/suricata-start.log
>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Info> - This is Suricata version 1.4
>>>>>>>> RELEASE
>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Info> - CPUs/cores online: 16
>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Info> - Failure when trying to get MTU via
>>>>>>>> ioctl: 19
>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Error> - [ERRCODE:
>>>>>>>> SC_ERR_MISSING_CONFIG_PARAM(118)] - NO logging compatible with daemon mode
>>>>>>>> selected, suricata won't be able to log. Please update 'logging.outputs'
>>>>>>>> in the YAML.
>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Info> - allocated 3670016 bytes of memory
>>>>>>>> for the defrag hash... 65536 buckets of size 56
>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Info> - preallocated 65535 defrag trackers
>>>>>>>> of size 144
>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Info> - defrag memory usage: 13107056bytes, maximum: 33554432
>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Info> - AutoFP mode using default "Active
>>>>>>>> Packets" flow load balancer
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If there any file that would give more details about why the
>>>>>>>> process is failing to start?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Benson
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Duarte Silva <
>>>>>>>> duarte.silva at serializing.me> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> that happened to me whe I started Suricata with the init.d script.
>>>>>>>>> That's because the init.d script forks Suricata to the background and then
>>>>>>>>> creates a pid file before Suricata. If you remove the line that echos the
>>>>>>>>> Suricata process identifier to the pid file, it should work fine.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>>>> Duarte Silva
>>>>>>>>> On 26 Feb 2013 21:32, "Benson Mathews" <benson.mathews at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I just installed Suricata 1.4 on my server and I'm attempting to
>>>>>>>>>> run it with PF_RINGS, but I get the following error while I start suricata.
>>>>>>>>>> cat /var/log/suricata/suricata-start.log
>>>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - This is Suricata version 1.4
>>>>>>>>>> RELEASE
>>>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - CPUs/cores online: 16
>>>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - Failure when trying to get MTU
>>>>>>>>>> via ioctl: 19
>>>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Error> - [ERRCODE:
>>>>>>>>>> SC_ERR_MISSING_CONFIG_PARAM(118)] - NO logging compatible with daemon mode
>>>>>>>>>> selected, suricata won't be able to log. Please update 'logging.outputs'
>>>>>>>>>> in the YAML.
>>>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - allocated 3670016 bytes of
>>>>>>>>>> memory for the defrag hash... 65536 buckets of size 56
>>>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - preallocated 65535 defrag
>>>>>>>>>> trackers of size 144
>>>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - defrag memory usage: 13107056bytes, maximum: 33554432
>>>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - AutoFP mode using default
>>>>>>>>>> "Active Packets" flow load balancer
>>>>>>>>>> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Error> - [ERRCODE:
>>>>>>>>>> SC_ERR_INITIALIZATION(45)] - pid file '/var/run/suricata.pid' exists. Is
>>>>>>>>>> Suricata already running? Aborting!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I tried deleting the pid file and restarting it but get the same
>>>>>>>>>> error. I'm new to this, any help would be much appreciated!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>> Benson
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Peter Manev
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peter Manev
>>
>
>
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Regards,
Peter Manev
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