App-Spoor/lib/App/Spoor.pm
package App::Spoor;
use v5.10;
use strict;
use warnings;
=head1 NAME
App::Spoor - A CPanel client for the Spoor service
=head1 VERSION
Version 0.08
=cut
our $VERSION = '0.08';
=head1 SYNOPSIS
This module (for now) only contains code to provide a naive implementation of a client for the
Spoor API that plays nicely with CPanel.
It is built with the following principles in mind:
=over
=item * Minimise the impact of the code on the existing CPanel instance
=item * Minimise the footprint on the host, by keeping the dependencies to a bare minimum
=item * Be as transparent as possible about the data that is being submitted
=back
Within the above context, App::Spoor consists of 3 main parts:
=over
=item * Scripts running under systemd that tail the CPanel access, error and login logs
=item * A transmitter script (also running under systemd) that communicates with the Spoor API
=item * A module that registers functionality for tracking changes to mail forwarding within the CPanel standardised hook framework
=back
=head2 Installing
Before installing the module, you will need to enable the logging of successful logins via WHM. At the time of writing,
this can be found by navigating to Server Configuration -> Tweak Settings -> Logging.
Once you have installed the module run the following from the commandline:
spoor_installer
It will setup a config file, some persistence directories, a number of systemd unit files and it will also create the
file that will register functionality against CPanel's standardised hooks.
Once it has completed, it will list a number of actions that must be performed (as root)before the installation is complete:
systemctl enable spoor-access-follower.service
systemctl enable spoor-error-follower.service
systemctl enable spoor-login-follower.service
systemctl enable spoor-transmitter.service
systemctl start spoor-access-follower.service
systemctl start spoor-error-follower.service
systemctl start spoor-login-follower.service
systemctl start spoor-transmitter.service
cd /usr/local/cpanel/bin/
./manage_hooks add module SpoorForwardHook
The install script will create a number of directories, a config file for Spoor as well as several systemd unit files.
=head2 Operation
App::Spoor operates on a simple principe of tailing CPanel's access, error and login log files. The follower services
monitor the log files and if they come across an item of interest, they create a JSON-representation of the event and
write it to /var/lib/spoor/parsed.
The transmitter service monitors /var/lib/spoor/parsed for any changes and sends these to the Spoor API. If a transmission
recives a response of HTTP 202, the JSON file is moved to /var/lib/spoor/transmitted, otherwise it remains in /var/lib/spoor/parsed and
the transmitter will keep on retrying, pretty much until the end of time.
=head2 Reporting
Spoor provides rudimentary reporting functionality that can be accessed from the commandline. This functionality
distinguished between reports (a report is created by the Spoor API when data is received) and mailbox events ( a
mailbox event is created once the report has been parsed).
spoor_report_list #List the most recent reports for the current host
spoor_mailbox_event_list #List the most recent mailbox events for the current host
=head2 Uninstalling
To uninstall,do the following (the below assumes that you are using cpanminus):
cd /usr/local/cpanel/bin/
./manage_hooks delete module SpoorForwardHook
systemctl stop spoor-access-follower.service
systemctl stop spoor-error-follower.service
systemctl stop spoor-login-follower.service
systemctl stop spoor-transmitter.service
systemctl disable spoor-access-follower.service
systemctl disable spoor-error-follower.service
systemctl disable spoor-login-follower.service
systemctl disable spoor-transmitter.service
rm -rf /etc/spoor
rm -rf /var/lib/spoor
cpanm --uninstall App::Spoor
=head2 Windows
For now, App::Spoor does not support Windows installations.
=cut
=head1 AUTHOR
Rory McKinley, C<< <rorymckinley at capefox.co> >>
=head1 BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to C<bug-app-spoor at rt.cpan.org>, or through
the web interface at L<https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=App-Spoor>. I will be notified, and then you'll
automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
=head1 SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc App::Spoor
You can also look for information at:
=over 4
=item * RT: CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)
L<https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=App-Spoor>
=item * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
L<http://annocpan.org/dist/App-Spoor>
=item * CPAN Ratings
L<https://cpanratings.perl.org/d/App-Spoor>
=item * Search CPAN
L<https://metacpan.org/release/App-Spoor>
=back
=head1 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2019 Rory McKinley.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a
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=cut
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