SEC reads lines from files, named pipes, or standard input, matches the lines with patterns (like regular expressions or Perl subroutines) for recognizing input events, and correlates events according to the rules in its configuration file(s). SEC can produce output by executing external programs (e.g., snmptrap or mail), by writing to files, by sending data to TCP and UDP based servers, by calling precompiled Perl subroutines, etc.
Also, the SEC FAQ provides answers to some frequently asked questions.
For additional information, you can check the following sources:
In order to install SEC, check where your Perl executable is located
and change the first line in the sec file accordingly.
For example, if your Perl executable is /usr/local/bin/perl,
set the first line to #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w.
Then copy sec and sec.man (SEC manpage)
to appropriate directories, e.g.,
cp sec /usr/local/bin
cp sec.man /usr/local/man/man1/sec.1
Since SEC is not tested against ancient Perl releases,
it is recommended to run SEC with at least Perl 5.8 (see
https://www.perl.org for the latest stable
Perl release).
Apart from Perl, SEC does not depend on other software.
It uses Perl Getopt, POSIX, Fcntl, Socket,
IO::Handle, and Sys::Syslog modules
which are included in the standard installation of Perl (the presence of
Sys::Syslog is optional). Since the 2.8 version, SEC also employs Perl
JSON module for producing dumpfiles in JSON format, but the presence of this
module is optional.
Mailing list
There is a
mailing list for SEC users.
The purpose of this list is to facilitate discussion between SEC users,
so that you can ask questions from more experienced users and share your
experience with others.
Before posting a question, please
search
the list - there are some questions that get asked quite frequently and
you might find several answers in the
mailing list archive.
Download
sec-2.8.3.tar.gz (May 2 2020)
... or you can visit SEC download pages at GitHub or Sourceforge (have also older versions available).
SEC has also been packaged for a number of Linux and BSD distributions.
You can try the following links for finding a package for your platform:
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Fedora and RHEL packages at Koji
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RPM package search at rpmfind.net
- Debian package info
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Ubuntu package info
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SLE and openSUSE package info
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Gentoo package info
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Arch Linux package info
- OpenBSD package info
- FreeBSD package info
(if any of the links are broken, please contact the author).
Please don't contact the author with SEC usage questions - you should post such questions to the SEC mailing list.
The author also thanks the following people for supplying software patches, documentation fixes, and suggesting new features: Al Sorrell, Brian Mielke, David Lang, James Brown, Jon Frazier, Mark D. Nagel, Peter Eckel, Rick Casey, and William Gertz.
Last but not least, the author expresses his profound gratitute to John P. Rouillard for many great ideas and creative discussions that have helped to develop SEC.