Re: Acid shows sensors as 0

["Shawn Kottke" <skottke () datalink com>]

Use nmap or something to do a scan against the box or a short range of IPs on your network and see if snort detects 
anything. 




-----Original Message-----
From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net <snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net>
To: Kevin Johnson <kjohnson () secureideas net>
CC: Snort Users <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
Sent: Tue Nov 23 14:31:11 2004
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Acid shows sensors as 0

Maybe that might be it. How can I test that is really doing something ? 


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:28:03 -0500, Kevin Johnson
<kjohnson () secureideas net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 15:21, Gentian Hila wrote:
>
>
> > The line that configures snort to connect in snort.conf is uncommented
> > and is like this:
> >
> > output database: log, mysql, user=snort password=******
> >  dbname=snort host=localhost
> >
> > (******  is the password) and snort connects as snort user in Mysql
> > and db name in mysql is snort.
> >
> > I have an empty event table.
> >
> > mysql> select * from event;
> > Empty set (0.00 sec)
> >
> > My question is: when you setup snort and acid, is it supposed to work
> > normally or do you have to configure other stuff and rules. My guess
> > is that it should work, even though it might need to be tuned. But
> > that's another story.
>
> It should work normally.  How long has Snort been running?  I would have
> to guess that it hasn't seen anything that it considered something to
> alert on.  Until it sees something, for example someone accessing a web
> server and trying to get cmd.exe,  that your rules would fire on, it
> doesn't report anything for ACID/BASE to display.
>
>
>
> Kevin
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