MISP - Ansible installation script

• V0.2

  • Data location management
  • misp-modules installation

• V0.1

  • Nginx support only
  • Backup script provided

Instructions

• From the ansible repository, run the following command:

ansible-playbook -i <host>, misp.yml -k -K -u <user>

• If you want to move the MISP data location to (MySQL database, MISP files and tmp), add the following parameter to ansible-playbook:

--extra-vars "data_location=<path>"

• Update the self-signed certificate in /etc/nginx/ssl
• Create and export your GPG key:

sudo -u www-data gpg --homedir /opt/misp-server/misp/.gnupg --gen-key
sudo -u www-data gpg --homedir /opt/misp-server/misp/.gnupg --export --armor YOUR-EMAIL > /opt/misp-server/misp/app/webroot/gpg.asc

• Login with:

  • user: admin@admin.test
  • password: admin and update the admin password

• Configure MISP in administration panel, server settings

Notes

• the user must have admin rights
• a self-signed certificate is generated to allow you to test the installation
• installation directory is: /opt/misp-server/misp
• backup directory is: /opt/misp-server/backup

Backup script

If enabled, a backup script create each day a new archive with a MySQL misp database dump and misp files to allow easy restore.

• these archives are created in: /opt/misp-server/backup
• a script to easy restore MISP from an archive is provided in the same directory
• to use the restore script, login as misp user and run the following command:

./misp_restore <archive_timestamp>.tar.gz