# sdn_security_platform_frontend

**Repository Path**: helenclaudia/sdn_security_platform_frontend

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: sdn_security_platform_frontend
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-01-06
- **Last Updated**: 2021-01-06

## Categories & Tags

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## README

The purpose of this project was to create a SDN security system. 
The project is supposed to be deployed using both repositories from:
- https://github.com/chrissayon/sdn_security_platform_frontend
- https://github.com/chrissayon/sdn_security_platform_backend

which are supposed to be deployed on the same hosts.

There is a repository that does provision both repositories but only the frontend will be functional, the provision repostory is more of a way for me to actually demonstrate my DevOps and AWS skills. It can be seen at:
- https://github.com/chrissayon/sdn_security_platform_provision/


## How this whole project functions
Provided you already know about SDN architecture, the backend of this project periodically pings a OpenFlow controller and gets statistics from the exposed controller API. It takes this data and performs so calculations to get periodic/incremental data and also runs the data through a machine learning model to check for DDoS attacks. It also runs the data through a machine learning model which was developed using TensorFlow 2.0 in python which will give a probability of whether the network is being attacked or not (though as byte count is the metric then this means that the scale of the network needs to be taken into account on whether the network is being attacked). 

## Other Frontend Information
The code was designed to get information from localhost:8000 which is hosting the django server (which can be seen from the backend repository). So if you want to see this website working in full functionality then install and run the frontend and backend on the same host; or you could alternatively run the frontend on the EC2 instance which would try to ping the backend on your local computer which you're accessing the browser from. 

The provisioning repository is able to deploy both the code to both frontend and backend on seperate hosts, but with the way the code is designed you won't get the full functionality if you run them on seperate hosts. The SDN Security Platform provision is more of a way for to demonstrate my DevOps skills and I was using this project as a means to do that.

## Setup
Assuming you have nodejs already installed, go into the root directory and run
#### `npm install`
This will install all the packages

Afterwards, you can start the server by running:
#### `npm start`