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Re: SNORT Alert Messages


From: Russ via Snort-devel <snort-devel () lists snort org>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 08:43:38 -0400

Check your shutdown counts under Limits.  Looks like you need to increase this:

config detection: max_queue_events

More info here:

http://manual-snort-org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/node9.html#SECTION00275000000000000000

Hope that helps.
Russ

On 6/9/18 5:24 AM, İzzettin Erdem via Snort-devel wrote:
Hello Everyone,

I changed community rules with my own rules and I realize that SNORT just prints alert messages maximum 5 times to console if it finds more than 5 alerts. For instance, I inspect one packet's payload with WireShark and wrote one rule which matches with packet's payload. I wrote this rule 20 times to rule file and I ran Snort. Snort gave me just 5 alert messages. How can I increase this alert count ? I am working on a Project and I am a beginner. I am very pleased if you can help me.

Example:

Rule File:
alert tcp any any -> any any (msg:"Feature1"; content:"#JN1"; nocase; sid:1) alert tcp any any -> any any (msg:"Feature2"; content:"#JN1"; nocase; sid:2) alert tcp any any -> any any (msg:"Feature3"; content:"#JN1"; nocase; sid:3)
.
.
.
alert tcp any any -> any any (msg:"Feature20"; content:"#JN1"; nocase; sid:20)

Snort Output:
05/-22:56:55.056993  [**] [1:2019:0] Feature2 [**] [Priority: 0] {TCP} 46.20.153.125:80 <http://46.20.153.125:80> -> 10.0.2.15:56216 <http://10.0.2.15:56216> 05/-22:56:55.056993  [**] [1:2017:0] Feature4 [**]  [Priority: 0] {TCP} 46.20.153.125:80 <http://46.20.153.125:80> -> 10.0.2.15:56216 <http://10.0.2.15:56216> 05/-22:56:55.056993  [**] [1:2015:0] Feature11 [**] [Priority: 0] {TCP} 46.20.153.125:80 <http://46.20.153.125:80> -> 10.0.2.15:56216 <http://10.0.2.15:56216> 05/-22:56:55.056993  [**] [1:2013:0] Feature15 [**] [Priority: 0] {TCP} 46.20.153.125:80 <http://46.20.153.125:80> -> 10.0.2.15:56216 <http://10.0.2.15:56216> 05/-22:56:55.056993  [**] [1:460:0] Feature18 [**]  [Priority: 0] {TCP} 46.20.153.125:80 <http://46.20.153.125:80> -> 10.0.2.15:56216 <http://10.0.2.15:56216>
Total Alerts: 5

Expected Output:
05/-22:56:55.056993  [**] [1:2019:0] Feature1 [**] [Priority: 0] {TCP} 46.20.153.125:80 <http://46.20.153.125:80> -> 10.0.2.15:56216 <http://10.0.2.15:56216> 05/-22:56:55.056993  [**] [1:2017:0] Feature2 [**] [Priority: 0] {TCP} 46.20.153.125:80 <http://46.20.153.125:80> -> 10.0.2.15:56216 <http://10.0.2.15:56216> 05/-22:56:55.056993  [**] [1:2015:0] Feature3 [**] [Priority: 0] {TCP} 46.20.153.125:80 <http://46.20.153.125:80> -> 10.0.2.15:56216 <http://10.0.2.15:56216>
.
.
.
05/-22:56:55.056993  [**] [1:2013:0] Feature19 [**] [Priority: 0] {TCP} 46.20.153.125:80 <http://46.20.153.125:80> -> 10.0.2.15:56216 <http://10.0.2.15:56216> 05/-22:56:55.056993  [**] [1:460:0] Feature20 [**] [Priority: 0] {TCP} 46.20.153.125:80 <http://46.20.153.125:80> -> 10.0.2.15:56216 <http://10.0.2.15:56216>
Total Alerts: 20



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