Manually input lookup data on server?

[dewald13]

Is there any way to manually input the library to do the lookup command? The network that I am trying to do this on is locked down and my Splunk server cannot hit the website to update the cache.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

[dshpritz]

This may not be just you. It looks like the user-agent-string.info site is down, which may be causing your problem.

As an alternative, I also have TA-browscap which has similar capabilities, but was more geared towards web analytics. It can be found here:

TA-browscap

It does allow (actually require) that you manually download the data file.

Thanks,

Dave

[dshpritz]

I'm afraid not. After the update script downloads the file from the user-agent-string.info site, it uses the pickle module to parse and the serialize the data to the cache file. Can you contact me (there is a contact link on the TA-uas_parser page) so I can get a better idea of your requirements?

Thanks,

Dave

[dewald13]

I dont even think we will be able to do that. Is there anywhere you know of the site I can download it from directly?

[dshpritz]

If you have a system which is not on a locked down network, you can run the "update_cache.py" script to download the data file. It will run the processing needed to create the cache file in the /bin/ua_cache/ directory. You can then copy the /bin/ua_cache/cache file to the locked down server for use. Let me know if that solution works for you.

Dave

[dewald13]

We are aware the site is having some issues but either way, we cannot get out of our network and hit it to download what is needed. Is there a way to accomplish this manually??

We have also looked at your TA-browscap app but that is not what we are looking for. We need to break down our user agent strings.

Please advise if there is a workaround.

thanks,
doug