Re: How to Ignore certain alerts

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Maybe someone that uses the BASE interface can answer for you.  I haven't
used anything but the command line and Sourcefire's interface for about 4
years.
J

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Daniel Qian
<daniel.qian () supracanada com>wrote:

>  How do I get the value for gen_id, sig_id from the Base output to put in
> threshold.conf file?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>
> *To:* Daniel Qian <daniel.qian () supracanada com>
> *Cc:* snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 19, 2009 8:34 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Snort-users] How to Ignore certain alerts
>
> You should place the suppressions in the threshold.conf file.  Make sure
> that the file is also uncommented in the snort.conf file.  (It's at the very
> bottom of the stock file)
> J
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Daniel Qian <daniel.qian () supracanada com>wrote:
>
> > Should I place the suppression rule in rules/local.rules file? In Base
> > interface, where can I find the sid of the alerts that get triggered?
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Esler" <jesler () sourcefire com>
> > To: "Daniel Qian" <daniel.qian () supracanada com>
> > Cc: <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
> > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 6:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Snort-users] How to Ignore certain alerts
> >
> >
> >
> > Check out "suppression" in the Snort manual.
> > > J
> > >
> > > On Friday, September 18, 2009, Daniel Qian <daniel.qian () supracanada com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am having nearly 10000 Microsoft SQL server related alerts produced by
> > > > Snort for our /23 network block. But most of our systems are not even
> > > > Microsoft. I am trying to make Snort send these alerts for only a couple
> > > > servers. so I have tried putting
> > > >
> > > > var SQL_SERVERS [x.x.x.x/32,y.y.y.y/32]
> > > >
> > > > in snort.conf but it doesnt do anything for me. What is the best
> > > > approach to
> > > > achieve that result?
> > > >
> > > > Two links about the alerts copied from Barnyard2:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-039.mspx
> > > >
> > > > http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99992.htm
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Daniel
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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