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Re: Syslog montioring and usage.
From: Greg Skouby <gskouby () sitesnow com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:11:50 -0400
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:54:07PM -0400, Chad Thomsen wrote:
I am trying to learn the ins and outs of using Syslog. I am at my second job where I have installed and configure another Pix, but have never really got into Syslog. I am currently using KIWI syslog daemon. I would like to better find out what the messages mean, and how to track down port scans, and other security related issues that syslog may reveal. To sum it up I want to be able to have a good understanding of a log file that comes form a Pix.
You are not going to get automated reporting of portscans using the syslog features of the pix. It sends per packet information to the syslog facility so it is left up to the user to come up with some solution to grep information out of the syslog info. Do not try to use the pix as an IDS solution. There is plenty of good open source implementations of IDS that you can set up, see http://www.snort.org. See this page for information about certain events generated by the pix: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/pix/pix_sw/v_63/63syslog/pixemsgs.htm --Greg _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Syslog montioring and usage. Chad Thomsen (Jul 13)
- Re: Syslog montioring and usage. Chris Todd (Jul 15)
- Re: Syslog montioring and usage. Marcus J. Ranum (Jul 15)
- Re: Syslog montioring and usage. Josh Welch (Jul 15)
- Re: Syslog montioring and usage. Greg Skouby (Jul 15)
- Traffic generating tool survey David Lang (Jul 19)
- RE: Traffic generating tool survey lordchariot (Jul 19)
- Traffic generating tool survey David Lang (Jul 19)
- Re: Syslog montioring and usage. Ng Pheng Siong (Jul 15)
- Re: Syslog montioring and usage. Adrian Grigorof (Jul 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Syslog montioring and usage. Melson, Paul (Jul 15)
- RE: Syslog montioring and usage. Wes Noonan (Jul 19)
- RE: Syslog montioring and usage. Chad Thomsen (Jul 19)
- RE: Syslog montioring and usage. Wes Noonan (Jul 19)
- Re: Syslog montioring and usage. Roger Marquis (Jul 19)
- Re: Syslog montioring and usage. Brian Ford (Jul 19)