Alternate Alerting for Snort - phone

["Michael Bowman" <MichaelB () snbt net>]

Before I get started, I've looked through the archives and looked 'round
online and have yet to have any good luck (other than a bad link).

Management has asked me to look into real-time alerting from the Snort
sensor we employ, round the clock, to my phone. The only nearly helpful
reference I saw had a link to the old FAQ on sourforge's snort site, and
I didn't find what I was looking for elsewhere. I realize that the
potential for a storm of false-positives is very real, but, we
essentially shut down at 6:30 everyday, and coupled with good tuning,
should greatly reduce the occurrence of that after hours. This will be
running WinSnort on XP SP2, BTW. (Consolidating from several sensors to
a better located central sensor.)

The factory I used to work at had a solution in place with Watchdog and
an obsolete piece of code for heartbeats to goto their cells. But if I
recall, they spent a bit on the license for that old piece of code. 

Certainly appreciate it!

Michael Bowman



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