Fwd: Help with Alerts

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

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> From: H Phillips <hal_der2000 () yahoo com>
> Date: September 9, 2012, 11:45:57 PM EDT
> To: Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Help with Alerts
> Reply-To: H Phillips <hal_der2000 () yahoo com>
>
> I have a problem. Base is not showing any activity.  Sensors/Total:0/1. Can anyone tell me what the problem may be?
>  
> HP
>
> From: Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>
> To: "wkitty42 () windstream net" <wkitty42 () windstream net> 
> Cc: "snort-users () lists sourceforge net" <snort-users () lists sourceforge net> 
> Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2012 4:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Help with Alerts
>
>
> On Sep 9, 2012, at 12:00 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net> wrote:
>
> > On 9/9/2012 09:09, James Lay wrote:
> > > On Sep 8, 2012, at 6:31 PM, waldo kitty<wkitty42 () windstream net>  wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 9/8/2012 07:53, Joel Esler wrote:
> > > > > If you are using pulledpork, it should generate your Sid-MSG.map for you. Are
> > > > > you using pulledpork?
> > > >
> > > > and if you are not using pulledpork, there is a tool in the utilities area for
> > > > this... at least there was in the older versions of snort... i guess it is still
> > > > there?
> > > >
> > > >  create-sidmap.pl /path/to/rules>  /path/to/sidmap/sid-msg.map
> > >
> > > Actually I think that's part of oinkmaster :)
> >
> > it might be... i dunno... i've seen it as a separate tool in several places... 
> > gotta dance a little dance if one has more than one rule directory, though...
>
> It is part of oinkmaster. 
>
> As someone said earlier in the thread, you need to be using pulledpork to generate the Sid-MSG.map because that will 
> include the SIDS from you local ruleset. 
> Very important. 
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