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Installing Whisperers

Spider Whisperers are used to capture communications for analysis in Spider.
To create a Whisperer, follow these steps:

A. Create the Whisperer​

  1. Create the Whisperer on the UI

    • For the team
      AddWhispererToTeam.png
    • Or directly for a User
      AddWhispererToUser.png

  2. The Create a Whisperer form opens

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  1. Define the Whisperer main configuration

    • Name - as you wish
    • Mode: INTERFACE
    • Capture - Recording
    • Pcap filter
    • Save Packets, Tcp, HTTP content

  2. Click CREATE to create the Whisperer

The Whisperer details opens.

B. Fetch configuration​

  1. Move to the Installation tab

    • The tab has inline instruction to help you to install your new Whisperer.

  2. Click on GENERATE API KEY

  • It generates a couple of private / public keys for authentication
  • And gives you the private key in a locally generated config file

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Keep this file safe as it is required for your Whisperer to authenticate with the server.

C. Install the Whisperer an the system to capture​

You may setup Whisperers, either:

  • Locally, for local development / tests
  • On your servers, to observe dedicated hosts or full clusters.

Whisperers may be setup:

Whisperers have run in many different physical, virtual hosts and Docker or Kubernetes distributions. But you'll have to test on your own, there is too many variants 🤗

As you've seen, most configuration is not in the infrastructure. So it is easy to test!

Available images​

Versioned tags are available, matching the system versions.
Docker images of Whisperers are public.