Host Intrusion Detection System Administrator's Guide Release 3.0

The idsagent Command
The idsagent Command
Appendix C
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The idsagent Command
idsagent starts the HP-UX HIDS agent software on the agent system. See idsagent
(1M).
CAUTION It is strongly urged that you do not use the debugging options (-c, -d, -e, -l, and -p)
except for testing and debugging. In normal operation, the debugging options will
degrade the performance of the HP-UX HIDS agent software.
Synopsis idsagent [-a] [-c level ] [-d] [-e] [-l dlogfile ] [-p]
Options -a Activate the previous surveillance schedule.
If the schedule was retained when the previous idsagent stopped, the
schedule is restarted. An activated surveillance schedule is retained if
idsagent is halted from the agent system. It is not retained if
idsagent is halted from the administration system, that is, with
idsadmin or the idsgui System Manager.
This is the default when idsagent is started at system boot time.
The boot initialization script, /sbin/init.d/idsagent, starts
idsagent with the -a option.
-c level
Set the debugging level for the communication layer to level, which can
have the following values:
0 Error condition messages. Display error messages
only. This is the default.
1 High level logmessages. Display both error messages
and high level log messages.
2 Detailed log messages. Display error messages and
both high level and verbose log messages.
The messages are written to the error log file, as defined in the
configuration parameter IDS_ERRORFILE.
CAUTION Setting level to 2 will cause the IDS_ERRORFILE file to grow quickly to
many megabytes, possibly filling your disk volume.
-d Enable verbose debugging.
Debug messages are written to the error log file, as defined in the
configuration parameter IDS_ERRORFILE, unless you specify a debug
log file with the -l option.
-e Enable verbose error reporting.