node-netasqcomm

This is a NETASQ security appliance comm library for node.js. It contains also a cli: nncli (NETASQ Node CLI)

• http://www.netasq.com
• http://nodejs.org

Installation with npm

Installing npm (node package manager: http://npmjs.org/)

curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh || sh	

Installing netasqcomm

[sudo] npm install [-g] netasqcomm

nncli (bin) will be only available with global (-g) option.

Usage

Basic

var
session = require('../lib/netasqcomm').createSession({
		login: 'admin',
		pwd: 'adminadmin',
		host: '10.0.0.254',
		verbose: false // true if you want debug logs
});


session.on('error', function(error) {
		if (error) {
			console.log('Session error (%s): %s', error.code, error.message);	
		} else {
			console.log('Session error occured (no details)');
		}
		process.exit(1);
});

session.connect(function() {
		console.log('Logged in.');
		console.log('Session level: %s', session.sessionLevel);		
		session.exec('help', function(response){
				response.dumpServerdData();
				session.exec('quit', function(response){
						response.dumpServerdData();
				})
		})
});                                     
		

Examples

• examples/basic.js
• bin/nncli.js

Exports

Session class

/**
* @class
* @inherits EventEmitter
* @event error({exception}) > {code, message, ...}
* @event connected()
* @event commandResponse({string} session level)
* @event downloaded()
* @event disconnected()
* @params {object} config
* @see SESSION_ERRORS
* @see SESSION_ERRORS_MSG
* @see SESSION_LEVELS
*/

Session Methods

• connect

/**
* @public
* @method
* Connect to NETASQ appliance
* @param [{function} callback], optionnal, use a callback or 'connected' event
* @see SESSION_ERRORS,
* @see 'connected' event
* @see 'error' event
*/

• disconnect

/**
* @public
* Run exec() with quit command 
* @param [{function} cb({object} data)], optionnal, use a callback or 'commandResponse' event OR 'disconnected' event
*/

• exec

/**
* @public
* @method
* Run a command
* @param {string} command
* @param [{function} cb({object}data)], optionnal, use a callback or 'commandResponse' event
* @see 'commandResponse' event
*/

• download

/**
* @public
* @params {object} wStream: Writable Stream
* @params {string} fileName
* @param [{function} cb({object}data)], optionnal, use a callback or 'downloaded' event
*/

• upload

/**
* @public
* @params {string} fileName
* @param [{function} cb({object}data)], optionnal, use a callback or 'uploaded' event
*/

Session Events

• error
• connected
• commandResponse
• downloaded
• uploaded
• disconnected

Session Properties

• TODO

Functions

• dumpServerdObject

/**
* Dump to writable stream serverd object as a human readable format (ini style),
* function of served format
* @public 
* @param {object} serverd: part of returned data
* @param [{object}] ws: Writable Stream. Optionnal. Default to process.stdout
* @see Session.exec
* @see test/netasqcomm-*-format.js
* @example
* session.exec('help', function(data){
* 		netasqComm.dumpServerdObject(data.nws.serverd); // This will dump data to stdout
* })
*/

• getObjectValue

/**
* @public
* @returns obj reference value related to str path
* @throw error if property does not exists
* @example
*	foo: {
*		bar: 'value'
* 	}
* 	getObjectValue('foo.bar', foo) returns 'value'
* 	getObjectValue('help', foo) throw an error
*/

Consts

• SESSION_ERRORS: Object of Number properties.

  • AUTH_FAILED
  • LOGIN_FAILED
  • TOO_MANY_USER_AUTHENTICATED

• SESSION_ERRORS_MSG: Object of String properties.

  • AUTH_FAILED
  • LOGIN_FAILED
  • TOO_MANY_USER_AUTHENTICATED

• SESSION_LEVELS: Array of String:

  • modify
  • base
  • contentfilter
  • log
  • filter
  • vpn
  • log_read
  • pki
  • object
  • user
  • admin
  • network
  • route
  • maintenance
  • asq
  • pvm
  • vpn_read
  • filter_read
  • globalobject
  • globalfilter

• SERVERD: Object of Number properties.

  • OK: 100// Success one line
  • OK_MULTI_LINES: 101// Success multiple lines
  • OK_SERVER_WAITING_MULTI_LINES: 102// Success: serverd is waiting for data
  • OK_DISCONNECTED: 103// Success: session is closed
  • OK_SERVER_NEED_REBOOT: 104// Success but appliance should be restarted (in order to apply modifications)
  • WARNING_OK: 110// Success but one warning
  • WARNING_OK_MULTI_LINE: 111,// Success but multiple warning
  • KO: 200// Failure one line
  • KO_MULTI_LINES: 201// Failure multiple line
  • KO_AUTH: 202// Authentication failed
  • KO_TIMEOUT_DISCONNECTED: 203// Failure: timout disonnected (no activity)
  • KO_MAXIMUM_ADMIN_REACH: 204// Failure: maximum administrator are connected to appliance
  • KO_LEVEL: 205// Administator do not have enought level to run specified command
  • KO_LICENCE: 206// Appliance do not have licence option to run specified command

Known issues

• Limited to NETASQ V9+ firmware (http(s), SRP is not supported)

Test

Just run npm test