Alerts, Logged and Passed

[Clayton Mascasrenhas <masclaythesnort () yahoo com>]

Hi,

After I run snort... a summary shows up saying Alerts = 6 , Logged = 6, Passed = 0. When I open my alert file that is 
generated I see 6 alerts there. Then for another data file when I run snort I get Alerts = 4 , Logged = 0, Passed = 0. 
Now when I open my alert file I see 4 alerts inspite of them telling me Logged = 0. So what does that mean??.. that 
"Logged" word.. does it represent anything?? Sometimes I get Alert = 8 and Logged = 14... here they say a number 
greater than that alerted... which throws me completely off. Now I am really confused. I did read Marty's article at 
http://www.theadamsfamily.net/~erek/snort/logging_methods.txt but I still am not so clear. Please can someone help me 
out here. 

I also noticed that when in the summary they say Alerts = some number X and Logged = some number Y which is not equal 
to X ... then the scan file generated has something in it.... otherwise there is nothing in it. What is this scan 
file?? Does it have anything to do with the Logged and Alert things. Please could someone help me out and clarify this 
for me. 
Regards 
Clayton Mascarenhas 



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