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Creating a Whisperer

Creating a Whisperer is only possible with a specific access right.
The creator of the Whisperer gains immediate rights to edit any of its characteristics.

When creating a Whisperer you have to:

  • Name it
  • Configure it
  • (option) Share it with teams or users
  • Install it

And then, you may launch it manually, or as code, or through a Controller to capture systems communications.

Whisperer creation​

You may create Whisperers in two ways:

  • From the Team details panel
  • From the Whisperer list (below)

From the Teams details panel​

See Adding Whisperers to a team.

From the Whisperer list​

In the Whisperer list pop-in, click the New Whisperer button:

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The Create Whisperer form opens with default settings.

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You may customize in it the main settings to get a working Whisperer out of the box:

  1. Name
    • There is no uniqueness constraints on Whisperer name.
    • But it is best to have a meaningful name when selecting it later on!
    • Usually, the Whisperer name matches to an environment or an application.
  2. Mode
    • INTERFACE to capture and stream data from a network interface
    • UPLOAD to upload data from the UI
  3. If the Whisperer should be capturing straight after creation
  4. A Pcap filter to limit the TCP or UDP ports to watch
  5. If the Whisperer should track TCP sessions
  6. A few key saving and parsing parameters

To know more about configuration, see Configuring a Whisperer

Once created, you may already start attaching this Whisperer to a Kubernetes workload.
Or, to capture the network on a Virtual Machine, Physical Host or a Container outside Kube, you need to install it first.