Re: Archiving events via BASE

[David Ryan <David.Ryan () Quintiles com>]

Juergen,



Thanks for the reply.  I changed the setting you indicated below and the data archiving went correctly.  It just seemed 
a bit strange that snort or the back end didn't fail with any kind of error message to indicate that everything had not 
gone to plan.  I was still stuck with the single entry that I couldn't archive off (no matter what way I tried to 
archive it I just couldn't get it to move) so I just deleted it in the end.



Thanks again,



David



On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 03:23:05AM -0700, David Ryan wrote:



> There seems to be a problem with the archiving function, but I don't

> know if I am using it incorrectly.  I had one particular alert with

> 15,000+ events, so I went in to the view of unique alerts, selected

> the relevant icon on the list and selected 'archive (move) selected'

> from the actions.

> After a long time the transaction seemed to finish OK, but when I went

> in to look at it again there was still some large number of these

> events . . . maybe 5,000+.

> I checked the archive database and many of the entries had been moved.

> I repeated the procedure and it came down to 1,000+ events.  Then I

> repeated it and it left 1.

> No matter how many times I repeat, this 1 event will not move.

>

> So, here's the question - how come when I asked BASE to move all the

> records of a particular type it only moved part of them, and how come

> it refuses to move the last transaction ?

> It makes me a bit wary of the archive funtion if it has this type of

> issue.



Hi,



php knows a timeout for each script. BASE increases this timeout a little bit, but not enough for such a huge number of 
alerts.

In base_conf.php look for a line like



        $max_script_runtime = 180;



Set this to 6000 or whatever:



        $max_script_runtime = 6000;



Bye, bye,



Juergen


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