I have an application that I need help creating. I believe its use would be valuable in the IT field but am having a hard time figuring out the details of how it should be made.

Anyone want to help?

4/23/2010 3:16:02 PM

this wont end well!

4/23/2010 3:17:26 PM

this wont end well!

4/23/2010 3:21:13 PM

You'll get a lot better response if you just post the details in this thread.

4/23/2010 3:21:26 PM

move to trash bin

4/23/2010 3:37:57 PM

4/23/2010 3:47:50 PM

so basically, part of my job is processing firewall requests which come in as a pdf doc.

Source and destination addresses are not subnetted and may or may not be in our firewall routes.

I would like to create an app that will:

Subnet the addresses
Check the routing table to find out which access group the subnets are in
Sort the subnets and hosts into object-groups if required
generate access-lists
execute the commands on firewall

it seems pretty logical and probably would be a no brainer for someone who programs a lot

4/23/2010 8:45:18 PM

is the text selectable in the pdf or is it an image?

4/24/2010 12:13:05 AM

^^why not just write a script to do it?
chances are you already execute those commands regularly

4/24/2010 10:49:34 AM

...exactly who creates firewall requests in a PDF?

^and that.

[Edited on April 24, 2010 at 12:38 PM. Reason : .]

4/24/2010 12:38:45 PM

change the pdf to a webform that submits params to a script.
done.

4/24/2010 12:45:16 PM

The text is selectable in the pdf. It is a form that is filled out by customers, then passed through for approval, finally showing up in a work queue for me.

The addresses are in no particular order and must be sorted. Then if there is a range it must be subnetted.

I can not change the method by which the requests are submitted. I can only work with the pdf to do this.

4/24/2010 1:13:54 PM

so what exactly do you need help with?

pdftotext pdf.pdf
parse pdf.txt
whatever commands you normally run

this should be easy

4/24/2010 1:25:06 PM

right.. i have no idea how to do that. The ip addresses are just one section of the PDF (Table A actually). The source addresses are in column 1 of the table, destination column 2, ports column 3, and protocol is column 4.

I really am interested in finding someone to sit down with to go over it.

4/24/2010 1:29:32 PM

are you going to pay someone to do your work for you?

ask specific questions, like "how do I convert a pdf to text?", not "here's what I need you to do, do it for me."

4/24/2010 1:34:24 PM

parse pdf.txt | awk '{print $1}' | sort -bn

4/24/2010 1:46:19 PM

yes, i'd pay 5/hr for it.

4/24/2010 1:48:05 PM

I accept bits of string.

4/24/2010 4:15:00 PM

ITT

4/24/2010 4:18:09 PM

$5/hour probably won't get you anything, so you might be better trying to get free help here. Solinari and I have done half of it, I gave you the code to convert the PDF to something easier to parse, solinari gave you the code to parse and sort it, those two lines combined with a loop to iterate through and whatever commands you do to open ur firewall.

4/24/2010 6:45:43 PM

Quote :

"yes, i'd pay 5/hr for it."

Will you promise to pay with wooden nickels too?




Oh, and please tell me that you're not trying to do all this on a Windows box?

4/24/2010 10:20:39 PM

sounds like a very useful tool for hackers

4/24/2010 10:31:06 PM

This bears repeating:

Quote :

"Oh, and please tell me that you're not trying to do all this on a Windows box?"

4/25/2010 8:56:33 AM