Re: Base Configuration!

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Friday, September 15, 2006 10:01:09 -0700 Zakai Kinan 
<titanyen2000 () yahoo com> wrote:
> 1. I read that I only need the client portion of my
> mysql to be installed in order for snort to be able to
> log to a remote mysql server.  Is this assumption
> correct?
Yes, but I would suggest that you have snort log unified logs and then use 
barnyard to "talk to" the remotely hosted database.

> 2. Can base be installed and work properly on a
> different server?  Let me clarify:  the snort firewall
> will send its logs to a database server and base will
> be installed on a different server.
Sure.  All base needs is to know where the db is, what its name is and what 
the login credentials are.

> 3. Does mysql have to be running for snort to send its
> logs to a different server?
No.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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