IDS: Re: Snort & email

[James Riden <j.riden () massey ac nz>]

"Dan S Baxter" <Dan.Baxter () ipaper com> writes:

> I'm setting up a Snort sensor in our environment and I am unable to
> determine how I might get emailed on alerts.  I understand some are using
> Swatch, but we are not logging to syslogs but rather to a mysql db.  What
> are others doing in this case?
I'm logging to /var/log/snort/alert and /portscan.log as well as
postgresql. Then I have a couple of perl scripts which do
post-processing, including paging me if necessary. You could easily do
the same with email, depending on how often you want to be
emailed. There are also packages such as 'snort-stat' which can give
you a summary of events, etc.

In this environment, snort generates way too many alerts to email/page
me on each one. Typically I'd only be using paging for attempted-admin
and successful-admin type alerts.

cheers,
 Jamie
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James Riden / j.riden () massey ac nz / Systems Security Engineer
GPG public key available at: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~jriden/
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