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Beltane is a web-based central management console for the Samhain file integrity / intrusion detection system. Beltane project enables the administrator to browse client messages, acknowledge them, and update centrally stored file signature databases.
Beltane requires a Samhain (version 1.6.0 or higher) client/server installation, with file signature databases stored on the central server, and logging to a SQL database enabled.
In a client/server installation of Samhain, you have individual hosts monitored by Samhain clients, and a central log server (called yule) where also the file signature databases are kept. Beltane enhances this setup by providing an interface to browse client messages, acknowledge them, and modify the file signature database for a client according to the file changes reported by that client.
As the Samhain daemon keeps a memory of file changes, the file signature database need only be up to date when the daemon restarts and downloads the database from the central server. Beltane allows you to use the information logged by the client in order to update the signature database.
Details
Beltane is a PHP4 (also works with PHP5) application, with some additional components written in C. PHP4 (or PHP5) may be compiled as Apache module or as CGI interpreter (Beltane is tested with Linux, Apache 1.3/2.0, PHP 4.3.4/5.0.3 used as CGI interpreter, suexec, no SSL, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases).
Beltane 2 can also be used with an Oracle database.
On the client side, Beltane requires a Javascript capable browser. Cookies must be enabled. We recommend Mozilla/Firefox, as it is rumoured to be the most standard-conforming browser, but most inferior browsers may work as well.
Documentation is provided as SGML and HTML files within the tarball. You are adviced to read the documentation before attempting to install Beltane.
Main features:
- Major performance and scalability improvements for reduced memory consumption, faster baseline database updates, and faster reload of the client panel
- Support for Oracle database (Beltane version 2.1.1 and above)
- Client Status Display (running/dead/unknown)
- Bulk Update from user-defined criteria like: the hostname, a list of files (with or without checksums), or a time window
- On-the-fly Sorting of the message list
- Message Filtering with POSIX regular expressions
- GnuPG Signing of client file signature databases after an update
- Search function for the database.
- Editing of client configurations
- Client Configuration Reload can be triggered
- Multiple Users with logging of login/logouts
- Server Messages can be viewed optionally
Enhancements:
- Multiple administrator accounts are possible, per-user configurability has been improved, and a strict locking policy has been implemented to avoid race conditions.

Big Faceless Java Graph Library 2.4.1 offers users a Java class library which can create graphs and charts.

The Big Faceless Java Graph Library is a Java class library for creating graphs and charts. It is backed by a full 3D engine, allowing you to create shaded 3D pie, bar, and line graphs as GIF, PDF, PNG, or other image formats.

Big Faceless Java Graph Library features include transparent backgrounds, extensible axes to graph dates, currencies, custom fonts, and spline curve fitting. It is small, fast, and easy to use.

The most useful benefit is the Tag Library interface. This makes embedding graphs in web pages almost trivial - as easy as creating an HTML table, for instance. Most people will embed the graph as a PNG, which means JavaScript can be used to create rollovers and actions, in exactly the same way as an image map. If you prefer a vector image, SVG and Flash can be created by changing one word of your XML.

Major Features:

1. XML and JSP Tag Library interface, for extremely easy integration with web projects
2. Very comprehensive API and Tag documentation with dozens of examples
3. Embed JavaScript in your tags to easily create powerful rollovers
4. Full 3D engine with adjustable light source, produces the most realistic graphs on the market
5. Output to PNG, SVG, Macromedia Flash, PDF or java.awt.Image for use in Applets
6. Graph Dates, Currencies, Percentages, Numbers and Discrete data out of the box, easily extended for total control over the axes
7. Mix Bars, Lines, Candles, Bubbles, all on the same graph
8. Add text, lines or custom markers anywhere on the graph, including axes
9. Use up to four axes on the one graph, including logarithmic axes
10. Plot mathematical functions, data samples and spline curves fitted to data, all on the same graph
11. It's fast plot several 3D graphs a second to PDF

Enhancements:

• Fixed mouseovers relating to to multi-bar series in the tag library
• Fixed build issue bug that was causing a required class to be obfuscated away. This was sometimes causing mouseover issues on the first graph.

Requirements: Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment