The Preferences window
Here you can configure the settings of the GUI and the nodes.
Some things to keep in mind:
- The GUI is a server, which receives connections from remote nodes. That's why there's a section for the UI and the Server.
- Almost all the labels and widgets have tooltips with explanations of the option.
Default options of the pop-ups
Options to customize the UI.
- Refresh interval: controls how often the view is refreshed. Default 0. If there're multiple nodes, or a lot of events, a value greater than 0 will help to redouce the CPU usage of the GUI.
- Theme: The GUI can be customized if you install the package
qt-material($ pip3 install qt-material)
When a pop-up is not answered on time, it'll apply a rule with the default options configured.
It'll also send a notification to the system. Here you can configure the content of that notification:
Available fields (use the format %<field>%):
- conn.time, conn.action, conn.dstip, conn.dsthost, conn.dstport, conn.proto, conn.process, conn.process_args, conn.process_cwd, rule.action, rule.name, node.name, node.hostname
These options controls the server part of the GUI to deal with nodes.
- Max server workers: Each connected node consumes around 2 workers. If there're more nodes than workers, the GUI won't allow new messages from nodes. Increase it if there're more than ~15 nodes connected.
- Max server clients: Limits the number of nodes that can connect to the GUI. 0 unlimited (default).
- Keepalive interval (milliseconds):
Every n milliseconds, the server (GUI) verifies if the nodes are alived.
If it doesn't receive a response from a node in n milliseconds, the
Keepalive timeoutwill start to count. - Keepalive timeout (milliseconds): After n milliseconds, the server (GUI) will close the connection with the node that stopped responding. The node if is alived, will try to reconnect.
Nodes configuration:
When changing the configuration of a node, be sure that you selected correctly the node!
You can also apply the configuration to all nodes.
More information about nodes management: Nodes
