Re: OSSIM Fedback

[Stefano Zanero <zanero () elet polimi it>]

Koolk3 wrote:

> I am looking for some feedback on the usefulness and practicaility
> (interms or maintenance and configuration) of this software. I am
> mainly interested in OSSIM as a corelation tool / log analysis for
> now. 

We studied OSSIM in order to use it as a framework for implementing our
own correlation algorithms.

My experience is partially negative, in particular for the lack of
documentation on installation and software internals. Additionally, the
source code is intentionally complex and undocumented, to avoid forking
or reuse... which is quite curious for a GPL software.

> Has anyone tried the latest version of the product (0.9.9)? 

No, we didn't, we tested earlier versions.

> Any
> feedback on installation and usability would be great.

Installation is quite difficult unless you use the provided debian
packages. Installing it clean on a Gentoo or name-your-distro box is
(used to be, at least) a mess.

ONCE INSTALLED, the software is very good, not to say excellent, with
good look and feel and usability. I like it a lot. But a software I
cannot expand, extend or troubleshoot easily is very much the contrary
of what I look for in a GPL software.

Stefano

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