generate_files

Author: Athanasios Gkaraliakos email: a.gkaraliakos@gmail.com email: athanasios.gkaraliakos@cern.ch

The script is written on python >=2.6

class iptables_manager_modules.generate_files.IPTablesFileGenerator

Here we generate iptables.gen and ip6tables.gen files to be used with the restore command. The class objects receives two lists for iptables and ip6tables and generates the files.

static get_current_rules()

This method copies the current iptables and ip6tables configuration that is in memory and write it to files with ‘.orig’ extension.

Returns:None

write_iptables_files(default_rules, user_rules)

This method receives 2 lists. By applying proper formatting on the lists it extracts the info to populate the ‘final’ lists so to write their contents in the ‘iptables.gen’ and ‘ip6tables.gen’ generated rule files.

Parameters:

• default_rules – This list contains all the rules that will be applied on each machine
• user_rules – This list contains all the rules generated from the user that are defined in the provided config files

Returns:

None