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Bindplane inquiry

  • October 27, 2024
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Hi Experts,

I understand that Bindplane can be used as a Manager to manage the rest of the collectors via an agent, and at the same time, the Bindplane manager can also be a forwarder itself. Is it possible to incorporate both forwarder and collector into a single application? What are the steps to achieve that?

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dnehoda
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  • October 28, 2024

There’s a couple components in question here (keep in mind this assumes you or your customer have a Secops license available to use)

Bind plane agent - install on endpoints - send direct to Secops or to Gateway. 
Bind Plane Gateway - Aggregation point for agents.  Collect data - have gateway send data to Secops. 
Bindplane OP server - host that stores and manages configs, pushes them to endpoints and shows connectivity.  

I personally haven’t used the Gateway piece but would see it like a WEF/WE. type setup.  Gateway config would need to be setup to send to Secops via SA json.  I’ll set one up and see what I can figure out.  Unless anyone else can hop in on that component.  

 

https://cloud.google.com/chronicle/docs/ingestion/use-bindplane-agent

https://observiq.com/docs/advanced-setup/kubernetes-installation/agent/architecture

 

 

 


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  • November 2, 2024

There’s a couple components in question here (keep in mind this assumes you or your customer have a Secops license available to use)

Bind plane agent - install on endpoints - send direct to Secops or to Gateway. 
Bind Plane Gateway - Aggregation point for agents.  Collect data - have gateway send data to Secops. 
Bindplane OP server - host that stores and manages configs, pushes them to endpoints and shows connectivity.  

I personally haven’t used the Gateway piece but would see it like a WEF/WE. type setup.  Gateway config would need to be setup to send to Secops via SA json.  I’ll set one up and see what I can figure out.  Unless anyone else can hop in on that component.  

 

https://cloud.google.com/chronicle/docs/ingestion/use-bindplane-agent

https://observiq.com/docs/advanced-setup/kubernetes-installation/agent/architecture

 

 

 


Hi @dnehoda,

Thank you for your reply and thanks for the link. Personally, I did not use the Gateway you mentioned. I am using the agent to receive the logs and export them to a google secops forwarder. These are the steps I followed:

https://support.netenrich.com/hc/en-us/articles/22173999437341-Windows-Event-Logs-via-Bindplane


dnehoda
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  • November 2, 2024

Hi @dnehoda,

Thank you for your reply and thanks for the link. Personally, I did not use the Gateway you mentioned. I am using the agent to receive the logs and export them to a google secops forwarder. These are the steps I followed:

https://support.netenrich.com/hc/en-us/articles/22173999437341-Windows-Event-Logs-via-Bindplane


You can do that too - there’s quite a few ways to use BindPlane. 

But you can skip the Forwader and send direct from the Bindplane  agents.


hzmndt
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  • January 2, 2025

BindPlane OP is the manager and you can get different license for the purpose
https://observiq.com/solutions

With Google license, you get unlimited agent support. 

And yes, you can move from Forwarder to Collector now, so to use only 1 platform with Google SecOps


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  • January 6, 2025

Yes. It is possible (as mentioned above) to create 2 different Configurations . Please note the "Protocol" is different for each 1. gRPC for Destination SecOps 2. https for Destination Forwarder

 


matthewnichols
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  • April 4, 2025

Hi @Jay_Tee we just embedded our Bindplane and Data Pipeline Management webinar. Check it out here. Hopefully it helps with some of your other uses cases as you leverage these features.