NAME

Cisco::IronPort - Interface to Cisco IronPort Reporting API

SYNOPSIS

use Cisco::IronPort;

my $ironport = Cisco::IronPort->new(
					username => $username,
					password => $password,
					server	 => $server
				);

my %stats = $ironport->incoming_mail_summary_current_hour;

print "Total Attempted Messages : $stats{total_attempted_messages}{count}\n";
print "Clean Messages : $stats{clean_messages}{count} ($stats{clean_messages}{percent}%)\n";

# prints...
# Total Attempted Messages : 932784938
# Clean Messages : (34%) 

METHODS

new ( %ARGS )

my $ironport = Cisco::IronPort->new(
					username => $username,
					password => $password,
					server	 => $server
				);

Creates a Cisco::IronPort object. The constructor accepts a hash containing three mandatory and one optional parameter.

username

The username of a user authorised to access the reporting API.

password

The password of the username used to access the reporting API.

server

The target IronPort device hosting the reporting API. This value must be either a resolvable hostname or an IP address.

proto

This optional parameter may be used to specify the protocol (either http or https) which should be used when connecting to the reporting API. If unspecified this parameter defaults to https.

incoming_mail_summary_current_hour

my %stats = $ironport->incoming_mail_summary_current_hour;
print "Total Attempted Messages : $stats{total_attempted_messages}{count}\n";

Returns a nested hash containing incoming mail summary statistics for the current hourly period. The hash has the structure show below:

$stats = {
	'statistic_name_1' => 	{
					'count'   => $count,
					'percent' => $percent
				},
	'statistic_name_2' => 	{
					'count'   => $count,
					'percent' => $percent
				},
	...

	'statistic_name_n =>	{
					...
				}

Valid statistic names are show below - these names are derived from those returned by the reporting API with all spaces converted to underscores and all characters lower-cased.

stopped_by_reputation_filtering 
stopped_as_invalid_recipients 
stopped_by_content_filter 
total_attempted_messages 
total_threat_messages 
clean_messages 
virus_detected
spam_detected 

incoming_mail_summary_current_day

Returns a nested hash with the same structure and information as described above for the incoming_mail_summary_current_hour method, but for a time period covering the current day.

incoming_mail_summary_current_hour_raw

Returns a scalar containing the incoming mail summary statistics for the current hour period unformated and as retrieved directly from the reporting API.

This method may be useful if you wish to process the raw data from the API call directly.

incoming_mail_summary_current_day_raw

Returns a scalar containing the incoming mail summary statistics for the current day period unformated and as retrieved directly from the reporting API.

This method may be useful if you wish to process the raw data from the API call directly.

incoming_mail_details_current_hour

# Print a list of sending domains which have sent more than 50 messages
# of which over 50% were detected as spam.

my %stats = $ironport->incoming_mail_details_current_hour;

foreach my $domain (keys %stats) {
	if ( ( $stats{$domain}{total_attempted} > 50 ) and 
		( int (($stats{$domain}{spam_detected}/$stats{$domain}{total_attempted})*100) > 50 ) {
		print "Domain $domain sent $stats{$domain}{total_attempted} messages, $stats{$domain}{spam_detected} were marked as spam.\n"
	}
}

Returns a nested hash containing details of incoming mail statistics for the current hour period. The hash has the following structure:

sending.domain1.com => {
	begin_date			=> a human-readable timestamp at the beginning of the measurement interval (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM TZ),
	begin_timestamp			=> seconds since epoch at the beginning of the measurement interval (resolution of 100ms),
	clean				=> total number of clean messages sent by this domain,
	connections_accepted		=> total number of connections accepted from this domain,
	end_date			=> a human-readable timestamp at the end of the measurement interval (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM TZ),
	end_timestamp			=> seconds since epoch at the end of the measurement interval (resolution of 100ms),
	orig_value			=> the domain name originally establishing the connection prior to any relaying or masquerading,
	sender_domain			=> the sending domain,
	spam_detected			=> the number of messages marked as spam from this domain,
	stopped_as_invalid_recipients	=> number of messages stopped from this domain due to invalid recipients,
	stopped_by_content_filter	=> number of messages stopped from this domain due to content filtering,
	stopped_by_recipient_throttling	=> number of messages stopped from this domain due to recipient throttling,
	stopped_by_reputation_filtering	=> number of messages stopped from this domain due to reputation filtering,
	total_attempted			=> total number of messages sent from this domain,
	total_threat			=> total number of messages marked as threat messages from this domain,
	virus_detected			=> total number of messages marked as virus positive from this domain
},
sending.domain2.com => {
	...
},
...
sending.domainN.com => {
...

Where each domain having sent email in the current hour period is used as the value of a hash key in the returned hash having the subkeys listed above. For a busy device this hash may contain hundreds or thousands of domains so caution should be excercised in storing and parsing this structure.

incoming_mail_details_current_day

This method returns a nested hash as described in the incoming_mail_details_current_hour method above but for a period of the current day. Consequently the returned hash may contain a far larger number of entries.

incoming_mail_details_current_hour_raw

Returns a scalar containing the incoming mail details for the current hour period as retrieved directly from the reporting API. This method is useful is you wish to access and/or parse the results directly.

incoming_mail_details_current_day_raw

Returns a scalar containing the incoming mail details for the current day period as retrieved directly from the reporting API. This method is useful is you wish to access and/or parse the results directly.

top_users_by_clean_outgoing_messages_current_hour

# Print a list of our top internal users and number of messages sent.

my %top_users = $ironport->top_users_by_clean_outgoing_messages_current_hour;

foreach my $user (sort keys %top_users) {
	print "$user - $top_users{clean_messages} messages\n";
}

Returns a nested hash containing details of the top ten internal users by number of clean outgoing messages sent for the current hour period. The hash has the following structure:

'user1@domain.com' => {
	begin_date	=> a human-readable timestamp of the begining of the current hour period ('YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM TZ'),
	begin_timestamp	=> a timestamp of the beginning of the current hour period in seconds since epoch,
	end_date	=> a human-readable timestamp of the end of the current hour period ('YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM TZ'),
	end_timestamp	=> a timestamp of the end of the current hour period in seconds since epoch,
	internal_user	=> the email address of the user (this may also be 'unknown user' if the address cannot be determined),
	clean_messages	=> the number of clean messages sent by this user for the current hour period
},
'user2@domain.com' => {
	...
},
...
user10@domain.com' => {
	...
}

top_users_by_clean_outgoing_messages_current_day

returns a nested hash containing details of the top ten internal users by number of clean outgoing messages sent for the current day period.

top_users_by_clean_outgoing_messages_current_hour_raw

Returns a scalar containing the details of the top ten internal users by number of clean outgoing messages sent for the current hour period as retrieved directly from the reporting API.

This method may be useful if you wish to process the raw data retrieved from the API yourself.

top_users_by_clean_outgoing_messages_current_day_raw

Returns a scalar containing the details of the top ten internal users by number of clean outgoing messages sent for the current day period as retrieved directly from the reporting API.

This method may be useful if you wish to process the raw data retrieved from the API yourself.

AUTHOR

Luke Poskitt, <ltp at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-cisco-ironport at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Cisco-IronPort. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Cisco::IronPort

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2012 Luke Poskitt.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.