Host Intrusion Detection System Administrator's Guide Release 3.0

Messages
Agent Messages
Appendix F
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❏ Action: Verify that the file exists; that it is owned by user:group ids:ids; and that it
is readable by user ids.
idsagent: failed to initialize configuration module
❏ Meaning: An error occurred while parsing the ids.cf configuration file. The SSL
certificates may not have been created properly, meaning that the REMOTEHOST
parameter my not be valid in ids.cf.
❏ Action: Check accompanying error messages and correct the problem.
idsagent: failed to reopen stderr in append mode
❏ Meaning: An internal error has occurred while attempting to reopen error reporting.
The per-process limit on file descriptors may have been reached.
❏ Action: Contact HP support.
idsagent: failed to start group
❏ Meaning: idsagent has encountered an error while attempting to activate a
surveillance group. The surveillance group may contain detection templates that are
not supported on this version of the idsagent.
❏ Action: Contact HP support.
idsagent: failed to stop group
❏ Meaning: idsagent has encountered an error while attempting to deactivate a
surveillance group.
❏ Action: Contact HP support.
idsagent: idsagent initialization failed. See /var/opt/ids/error.log for details. Exiting
❏ Meaning: A problem occurred during idagent initialization.
❏ Action: Evaluate the errors in the /var/opt/ids/error.log log file. Call HP
support.
idsagent: internal error in handling signature groups
❏ Meaning: idsagent was unable to correctly determine which surveillance group to
start or stop.
❏ Action: Verify that the crontab entry for user ids exists. Contact HP support.
idsagent: one of the IDS processes died abnormally: halting schedule execution
❏ Meaning: An HP-UX HIDS subprocess has died unexpectedly.
❏ Action: Contact HP support.
idsagent: please run the /opt/ids/bin/IDS_importAgentKeys script to complete IDS
installation
❏ Meaning: The final stage of the certificate installation process was not performed.
❏ Action: Execute the IDS_importAgentKeys program to import the certificates for
this agent.
idsagent: process (PID: pid ) pname died abnormally with error: msg
❏ Meaning: An HP-UX HIDS agent subprocess with PID pid and name pname has
failed unexpectedly, as described in msg .