[Bug 1898077] Re: [conntrackd][plugin] add conntrack info

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira]

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Title:
  [conntrackd][plugin] add conntrack info

Status in sosreport package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in sosreport source package in Bionic:
  In Progress
Status in sosreport source package in Focal:
  In Progress
Status in sosreport source package in Groovy:
  In Progress
Status in sosreport source package in Hirsute:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  * The plugin conntrackd is renamed to conntrack.
    (enabled automatically per installed packages.)

  * Added the following conntrack commands to the plugin,
    which run on default and other network namespaces:

    conntrack -L -o extended
    conntrack -S

  [Test Case]

  * Install sosreport

  * sosreport -a will exercise 'conntrack' plugin if one of the
  following packages installation is met: ('conntrack-tools',
  'conntrack', 'conntrackd'),

  * Alternative way to exercise the plugin :
    ** 'sosreport -o conntrack'
    ** 'sos report -o conntrack'

  * Then a sosreport tarball will be generated under /tmp

  * Extract that said tarball, and look under
  /path_to_sosreport/sos_commands/conntrack/

  And one should see 2 new files, one for each new commands added by
  this command, for the default and other network namespaces.

  [Regression Potential]

  * The plugin is renamed from 'conntrackd' to 'conntrack'.
  If one has a plugin_options in /etc/sos/sos.conf specific to former name 'conntrackd' (e.g skip the plugin, enable the plugin, ...) well it won't be effective anymore, and one would need to update their config file to reflect new reality of the plugin name change. But it's very uncommon to see users using such plugin options. Very unlikely to happen.

  * conntrack -L -o extended
  Show the connection tracking table in /proc/net/nf_conntrack format

  * conntrack -S
         -S, --stats
                Show the in-kernel connection tracking system statistics.

  The new commands addition are harmless, and if a problem arise it will
  be isolated to the 'conntrack' plugin and won't affect other plugins
  nor sosreport core functionalities.

  [Other Info]

  Closes: https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/2049
  Origin: https://github.com/sosreport/sos/commit/e6af5287b6bde901690c58090f958960a536660a
  Resolves: https://github.com/sosreport/sos/pull/2251

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