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Configuration

System configuration​

System configuration is managed in the values.yaml file and deployed by Helm.

Whisperer management​

Whisperers are Spider network capture agents.
They are capturing the network communications of your systems and sending them to the server.

  • They are created and managed completely on the UI.
  • They have many configuration options to best suit your capture needs and load.
  • They also offer extraction features to help Spider extract the business out of your communications. In order to integrate the business knowledge into Spider analysis tools.
  • They may be deployed:
    • manually
    • by Kubernetes manifests (Infra as Code)
    • by Spider Docker Swarm watchdog (Declarative mode)
    • by Spider Kubernetes Controllers (see below)

Controllers management​

Controllers are Spider deployment agents, for Kubernetes.

  • They are created on the UI
  • But they need to be deployed manually (through Helm)
  • They have various access rights and sharing options managed on the UI
  • They are used to:
    • Discover the cluster network usage
    • Attach Whisperers on any Kubernetes workload
    • Monitor deployed agents: Whisperers, Gociphers and Controller

Gociphers management​

Gociphers are Spider agents capturing TLS secrets.
They are deployed aside Whisperers. The captured secrets are linked to TCP sessions in the backoffice. They also capture network usage on Kubernetes.

  • They are created on the UI
  • But they need to be deployed manually (through Helm, or as standalone)
  • They have various access rights and sharing options managed on the UI
  • They are used in the background to:
    • Capture TLS secrets
    • Capture Network Usage