Database Configuration

Database Configuration

Grafana can be used to display real-time MSU and thread statistics on DeDOS.

To enable this feature:

Grafana installation

Install Grafana. On Debian/Ubuntu, this looks like:

wget https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/grafana-releases/release/grafana_4.6.2_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig
sudo dpkg -i grafana_4.6.2_amd64.deb

(Alternate installation instructions available here)

Database setup

Install mysql

# apt-get install mariadb-server cmake 
# wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/Connector-C/mysql-connector-c-6.1.11-src.tar.gz && tar xzf mysql-connector-c-6.1.11-src.tar.gz && cd mysql-connector-c-6.1.11-src/ && cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/share/mysql && make && make 

Create the database. Here, we assume the database is named dedos and the password and username are both root

$ mysql -uroot -proot
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 4938
Server version: 5.5.57-MariaDB-1ubuntu0.14.04.1 (Ubuntu)

Copyright (c) 2000, 2017, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]>CREATE DATABASE dedos;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

Add Data Source to Grafana

Load the grafana admin page and create an account. Then, under Data Sources, add a MySQL data source named dedos pointing to the just-created database.

Configure Grafana

Import the following json configuration into Grafana: DeDOS.json

Run DeDOS with Database

When starting up the global controller, add flag --init-db

NOTE: When --init-db is used, any data in the database will be lost! If you want to keep data between runs, use the --db flag instead.