drnetwork-agent

DrNetwork DLLTAgent to discover connectivity, performance and security issues in distributed applications.

This agent can detect network problems and application connectivity problems in 1 sec. There are certain types of distributed applications issues that are very difficult to discover without network protocols knowledge. DrNetwork agent has this knowledge embedded as heuristics.

This is WIP and might not be easy to build at the beginning, but I'll slowly make it easier :)

So far, DLLTAgent was tested running in AWS images and Ubuntu distributions 20.04 and 22.04.

It can work with EKS and Cilium.

You can read file instructions.txt in https://github.com/rodolk/dlltagent_tools to get more information. https://github.com/rodolk/dlltagent_tools/blob/master/instructions.txt

This file is more focused on using this code in a pod for torubleshooting in Kubernetes environment: EKS. The code in this repository can be used also without Kubernetes.

Building drnetwork dlltagent

To build, go to folder dlltagent/build and run make. The code has some dependencies:

• libpcap.a: Makefile expects to find it in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcap.a
• libdbus-1.a: Makefile expects to find it in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.a
• libsystemd.so
• libdl.so
• libpthread.so

REST plugin

The REST plugin is libdlltrestconnector.so and it is built in folder build/plugins: It has dependencies on:

• libbcurl.so
• libpthread.so

LOG library

For logging we generate library libdlltlog.so in build/log. The only dependecy is:

• libpthread.so

EBPF for process connections

DLLTAgent can use EBPF to detect the process generating a connection and the user running that process. For this, it needs to link library libdlltebpf.so that will install the proper EBPF module and will communicate with it. This is created in folder build/ebpf The code for the EBPF module can be found in https://github.com/rodolk/ebpf_process_connect We are going to use only the kernel module in that repository.

Note this dynamic library requires:

• libbpf.so: it expects to find it in $(KERNEL_ROOT)/tools/lib/bpf and, for execution, you'll need to install this library in the same directory as libdlltebpf.so is found.
• libelf.so
• libz.so

You have to install BPF: $(KERNEL_ROOT)/tools/lib/bpf

Define KERNEL_ROOT in build/ebpf/Makefile. Change the current value before building.

Building and running unit test

This is done in unittest folder. The unit test uses google test framework.

Run make to build everything for unit test. This is going to build also the objects in dlltagent. Run make test for running the unit test.

Dependencies:

• libgtest.so: Makefile extects to find it in /opt/googletest/build/lib
• libgtest_main.so: Makefile extects to find it in /opt/googletest/build/lib
• libpthread.so
• libdl.so
• libsystem.so

Author

rodolk

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