Re: Sguil 0.6.0 Released

[Bamm Visscher <bamm.visscher () gmail com>]

*sigh*

I've confirmed a bug that worked its way in during RC4. I recommend
people stick with RC3 until I can confirm the right fix and do a 0.6.1
release. I apologize for the inconvienence.

Bammkkkk


On 12/1/05, Bamm Visscher <bamm.visscher () gmail com> wrote:
> Announcing the release of sguil version 0.6.0.
>
> Sguil (pronounced sgweel) is built by network security analysts for
> network security analysts. Sguil's main component is an intuitive GUI
> that provides realtime events from snort/barnyard. It also includes
> other components which facilitate the practice of Network Security
> Monitoring and event driven analysis of IDS alerts. The sguil client
> is written in tcl/tk and can be run on any operating system that
> supports tcl/tk (including Linux, *BSD, Solaris, MacOS, and Win32).
>
> Sguil version 0.6.0 contains two significant differences from previous
> versions. The first difference is the use of the Mysql MRG_MyISAM
> (MERGE) engine for the sancp, event, *hdr, and data tables.  With the
> MERGE engine, it is possible to keep hundreds of millions of rows of
> data active and online and still be functional (queries to the DB are
> reasonably responsive).  The use of MERGE and the associated schema
> makes backing up and restoring data amazingly simple and quick. The
> UPGRADE text in the sguil-0.6.0/doc directory of the source contains
> more detail as well as upgrade instructions.
>
> The second major change was to the sguil output plugin for barnyard
> (op_sguil) and the communications structure between the sensors and
> sguild. Op_sguil now uses tcl libraries and sends data via localhost
> to the sensor's agent.  All communications between the sensor and
> sguild now flow thru sensor_agent. This means the mysql libraries are
> no longer needed on the sensors. Since barnyard does not need to be
> compiled with mysql support, op_sguil (barnyard) and Mysql 4+ may be
> used together without any license conflicts.
>
> Other changes include:
> * Support for the sfportscan preprocessor.
> * Sensor status display in the client.
> * incident_report.tcl script for creating PHB html reports
>
> Happy F8ing,
>
> Bammkkkk
>
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> sguil - The Analyst Console for NSM
> http://sguil.sf.net


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