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Honeyclient Director

The Honeyclient Director provides a network of Erlang nodes to control and monitor daemonized tasks usually scripted in another language.

Requirements:

• make
• Erlang 12b-5
• Ruby, Rake
• Addtionally any dependencies needed by the rake task to run

Install:

Once Erlang is configured, copy the drone application to the “applications” directory.
In drone/config, set the configuration parameters needed in “director.yml”. The following configuration parameters are required:

• pidfile: a unique name for the pidfile that hold the pid of the rake task running.
• command: the terminal command to run the task. For example ‘collector:start_as_daemon’
• phonehome: the erlang network name of the console node in the form: name@hostname. Where hostname corresponds to the result
  of the unix command “hostname -s”

To start the console application:
Within the “director” directory run:

  
   ./bin/console
  

  

To run a worker node:
Within the “director” directory run:

   
    ./bin/node -A drone -C sample
   

  

where ‘sample’ is the key of the desired configuration parameters in ‘director.yml’ file.