lynis-report-converter

Manageable report from lynis text output. Currently available report formats: HTML, PDF, Microsoft Excel (XLSX)*, JSON, XML**.

If you want to be able to use the PDF or Excel output formats, you must install some additional software. As is, the modules are required regardless of whether you use these features or not. Attempts are being made to change that behavior.

* It's possible that the Excel format will load for LibreOffic Calc, but this is currently untested. YMMV.

** WIP

Instructions for pre-requisite installation:

For Debian/Ubuntu

# (as root)
apt update							# versions prior to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS should use 'apt-get'
apt -y install htmldoc libxml-writer-perl libarchive-zip-perl libjson-perl

pushd /tmp/
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MF/MFRANKL/HTML-HTMLDoc-0.10.tar.gz
tar xvf HTML-HTMLDoc-0.10.tar.gz
pushd HTML-HTMLDoc-0.10
perl Makefile.PL
make && make install
popd
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JM/JMCNAMARA/Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.95.tar.gz
tar xvf Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.95.tar.gz
pushd Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.95
perl Makefile.PL
make && make install
popd
popd

For RHEL/CentOS/Fedora

# (as root)
yum -y install htmldoc perl-Excel-Writer-XLSX perl-Module-Load-Conditional perl-JSON
pushd /tmp/
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MF/MFRANKL/HTML-HTMLDoc-0.10.tar.gz
tar xvf HTML-HTMLDoc-0.10.tar.gz
pushd HTML-HTMLDoc-0.10
perl Makefile.PL
make && make install
popd
popd

For Gentoo

# (as root)
emerge --ask --verbose --one app-text/htmldoc dev-perl/HTML-HTMLDoc dev-perl/XML-Writer

pushd /tmp/
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JM/JMCNAMARA/Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.95.tar.gz
tar xvf Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.95.tar.gz
pushd Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.95
perl Makefile.PL
make && make install
popd
popd

Help Statement

./lynis-report-converter.pl -h|--help -v|--verbose -E|--excel -o|--output -j|--json -x|--xml

Where:

-h|--help                       Display this useful message, then exit.
-v|--verbose                    Display more detailed output.  This is typically used for
                                debugging, but may provide insight when running into problems.
-i|--input						Input log filename.  Defaults to /var/log/lynis-report.dat.
-E|--excel                      Output the report in Microsoft Excel binary format.
-j|--json						Output the report in JSON format.  The default is to print to 
							STDOUT, unlike the other formats which require an output file.  This 
							is based on the assumption that anyone using the JSON output will likely
							prefer to pipe the output to json_pp or another API or programmatic
							interface.
-x|--xml						Output the report in XML.
-o|--output                     Specifies the output file to print the report to.

Docker

docker build -t <imagename> .
docker run --rm -v /local-report-dir:/reports lynis-report-converter -o /reports/report.html -i /reports/lynis-report.dat

Output Features:

• HTML (default)
  • Summarizes the lynis report into a single HTML file.
• Excel:
  • Breaks out sections into worksheets.
• PDF:
  • Copy of the HTML report ported to PDF.
  • (This could use refinement.)
• JSON:
  • prints to STDOUT
  • can also be written to a file with the -o option
• XML:
  • Work in Progress (WIP)

TODO:

• PDF out needs refinement
• Other output formats?