RE: Question about alerts and Windows environment

["L. Christopher Luther" <CLuther () Xybernaut com>]

I just tweaked the snort.c file so that the '-s ipaddress' command line
parameter would not disable any output plugins specified in the snort.conf
file.  I now use *both* the '-s ipaddress' command line parameter and
'output alert_syslog: ...' option in snort.conf, and now Snort is properly
sending syslog alerts to my syslog daemon on another Win32 server.  

Christopher 

(BTW, I'm currently using Kiwi's syslog daemon service, but may switch to
3COM's syslog daemon service)


-----Original Message-----
From: Don Weber [mailto:Don () WeberOnTheWeb com]
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 1:07 PM
To: L. Christopher Luther; 'Mark Scott'
Cc: Snort-Users (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Question about alerts and Windows environment
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well there is backlog, that forwards windows event logs to a remote or local
syslog server, get that at kiwi i think, windows event log generates lots of
entires in the syslog tho.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net]On Behalf Of L. Christopher
Luther
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:27 AM
To: 'Mark Scott'
Cc: Snort-Users (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Question about alerts and Windows environment
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At least with both Snort 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 for Win32, the '-A' option does
work (at least w/ the binaries I obtained from the snort.org web site).  

When I first started using Snort, I used only the "-A fast" or "-A full"
command line parameters to generate alert information to the alert.ids file
in my log directory.  The command line was something like:  

    snort.exe -c "D:\BIN\Snort\snort.conf" -l "D:\BIN\Snort\log" -A fast -h
10.0.1.0/24 -i 1 -y 

I also use IDScenter to monitor the alert.ids file and generate e-mail
messages when alerts occur.  
I've recently switched to using MySQL as the repository for the Snort log
information.  My command line is now like:  

    snort.exe -c "D:\BIN\Snort\snort.conf" -l "D:\BIN\Snort\log" -h
10.0.1.0/24 -i 1 -y  

That is, no more '-A fast', and my snort.conf file now also has three output
plugins:  

    output alert_fast: alert.ids  
    output alert_syslog: LOG_AUTHPRIV LOG_ALERT  
    output database: log, mysql,  [snip]  

I still get the alert information logged to alert.ids (for use by
IDScenter), and I also noticed that, at least with Snort 1.8.6 for Win32,
the "alert_syslog" plugin generates output to my local Application Event
Log.  


Hope this helps,  

Christopher 


-----Original Message----- 
From: Mark Scott [mailto:mscott () mtgroup com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:29 PM 
To: 'L. Christopher Luther' 
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Question about alerts and Windows environment 


Hi Christopher, 

Thanks for the reply, my understanding is that with the Win32 port of snort
the -A option does not work. I did try that and to no avail.

Mark 
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[mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of L. Christopher
Luther
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 1:45 PM 
To: 'Mark Scott' 
Cc: 'snort-users () lists sourceforge net' 
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Question about alerts and Windows environment 


Mark,  

Are you using an alert output plugin in the snort.conf file?  If so, then
yes, '-E' will disable this alert output.  

Instead, specify an alert output via the command line (e.g., '-A fast', '-A
full', etc.) or, as I just found out (the hard way), the 'output
alert_syslog ...' plug-in under Win32 (at least for Snort 1.8.6) sends its
output to the Application Event log.  You could always try this and drop the
'-E' command line parameter.  

Christopher 


-----Original Message----- 
Date: Mon,  6 Jan 2003 09:34:37 -0600 
From: "Mark  Scott" <Mark.Scott () mtgroup com> 
Reply-To: <Mark.Scott () mtgroup com> 
To: <snort-users () lists sourceforge net.> 
Subject: [Snort-users] Question about alerts and Windows environment 

Hi, 

I am testing Snort on Windows XP and would like to be able to log alerts to
the alerts file in my log directory and also in my Windows event log. Is it
possible to do this? I am using the snort command line '-E' which sends it
to the event log, but it stops loggin to the alert file.

Thanks for any insight, 

Mark