Re: Sensor 'sanity'

["Paul Halliday" <paul.halliday () gmail com>]

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On Nov 8, 2007 10:09 PM, Matt Jonkman <jonkman () jonkmans com> wrote:
> You mean for faults like the span port was broken by the network guys,
> or started seeing only one part of a stream, or lost a chunk of it's
> monitored traffic?

Exactly.

> For the basics you could just use traffic monitoring, if it drops below
> a threshold shoot you an alert.
>
> What else did you have in mind?

I guess what I am looking for is an event generated by snort that will
appear in my console - perfmon looks like it might have the ability. I
would hate to add an extra component to every sensor just to tell me
it is frigged when snort might already have the ability to do so.

> Matt
>
>
> Paul Halliday wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am not sure about how most people deal with this but I would love any insight.
> >
> > In an overtaxed environment where I just don't have the time to coddle
> > each sensor, what is a common practice to make sure that the sensors
> > are actually still sane?
> > Most of my sensors are sittings on span/mirrored ports on gear that I
> > don't directly manage.
> >
> > Is/would it be possible to construct a preprocessor that could
> > actually fire and tell me that the link isn't 'typical' anymore?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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