Update fail2ban documentation

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Daniel Nelson 2017-08-25 11:42:07 -07:00
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# Fail2ban Plugin
# Fail2ban Input Plugin
The fail2ban plugin gathers counts of failed and banned ip addresses from fail2ban.
The fail2ban plugin gathers the count of failed and banned ip addresses using [fail2ban](https://www.fail2ban.org).
This plugin run fail2ban-client command, and fail2ban-client require root access.
You have to grant telegraf to run fail2ban-client:
This plugin runs the `fail2ban-client` command which generally requires root access.
Acquiring the required permissions can be done using several methods:
- Run telegraf as root. (deprecate)
- Configure sudo to grant telegraf to fail2ban-client.
- Use sudo run fail2ban-client.
- Run telegraf as root. (not recommended)
### Using sudo
You may edit your sudo configuration with the following:
``` sudo
telegraf ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/fail2ban-client status *
telegraf ALL=(root) NOEXEC: NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/fail2ban-client status, /usr/bin/fail2ban-client status *
```
### Configuration:
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``` toml
# Read metrics from fail2ban.
[[inputs.fail2ban]]
## fail2ban-client require root access.
## Setting 'use_sudo' to true will make use of sudo to run fail2ban-client.
## Users must configure sudo to allow telegraf user to run fail2ban-client with no password.
## This plugin run only "fail2ban-client status".
## Use sudo to run fail2ban-client
use_sudo = false
```
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```
```
$ ./telegraf --config telegraf.conf --input-filter fail2ban --test
fail2ban,jail=sshd failed=5i,banned=2i 1495868667000000000
```

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"os/exec"
"strings"
"strconv"
"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
"strconv"
)
var (
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}
var sampleConfig = `
## fail2ban-client require root access.
## Setting 'use_sudo' to true will make use of sudo to run fail2ban-client.
## Users must configure sudo to allow telegraf user to run fail2ban-client with no password.
## This plugin run only "fail2ban-client status".
## Use sudo to run fail2ban-client
use_sudo = false
`