Disabling Indicator Expiration

[alyssonalmeida]

@lmori, thank you for your help so far.

I am migrating my data to the "stdlib.localDB" miner, per your suggestion here.

I have two questions now:

First, I noticed that the default expiration for indicators added to this miner is just one day. How can I change this to one year? What about disabling expiration by default?

Second, I am trying to push indicators to this new miner via json (this would be irrelevant if you can answer my first question)
I tried to set ttl = -1 to disable expiration, but that didnt work. Since 0 deletes the indicator, not sure what to use here.
How can I disable expiration for these indicators through the API call?


curl -XPOST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -u admin:<ommited> "http://localhost/config/data/feed_any_indicators/append?h=feed_any&t=localdb" -d '
[
{
"indicator": "219.101.37.81",
"type": "IPv4",
"comment": "Win32.Conficker.Cp2p",
"share_level": "green",
"Confidence": 100,
"ttl": -1
},
{
"indicator": "82.188.123.234",
"type": "IPv4",
"comment": "Win32.Conficker.Cp2p",
"share_level": "green",
"Confidence": 100,
"ttl": -1
}
]'


FYI, the command is working. When I remove the ttl field, the miner is added and the expiration is set to 24 hours.

[lmori · Accepted solution]

Hi @alyssonalmeida,

with tth: -1 you are removing the indicator, you can use this to disable expiration:

{
[...]
    "ttl": "disabled"
}

Or you can create a new prototype based on stdlib.localDB and set the expiration to disabled by default:

age_out:
    sudden_death: true
    default: null

[lkrous]

How do you enable the ttl after it has been disabled?

I tried setting the ttl: -1, ttl: 0, ttl: enable, and ttl: enabled, but it still shows disabled when I look at the node indicator table in MineMeld.

Thanks.

[lmori]

Hi @lkrous,

you can do that by setting a valid ttl. Countdown to expiration will start from the update time.

{
    "indicator": "8.8.8.8",
    "type": "IPv4",
    "comment": "usual Google DNS Public IP",
    "share_level": "green",
    "confidence": 100,
    "ttl": 3600
}'