Host Intrusion Detection System Administrator's Guide Release 3.0

System Manager Screen

Activating a Schedule on Agent Hosts

Chapter 4

Activating a Schedule on Agent Hosts

To provide intrusion detection, you must activate surveillance schedules on the agent

hosts. You also use this procedure to replace a schedule on one or more hosts.

To activate a surveillance schedule on agent hosts

On the System Manager screen,

Step 1. In the Monitored Hosts list, select the hosts you want to be activated. Their Status ﬁelds

must show Available, Scheduled, or Running.

Step 2. In the Schedules list, select the surveillance schedule you want to activate.

Step 3. Do one of the following:

• Click the Activate button

• Choose the Actions > Activate Schedule menu item

• Press Shift-F8

• Right-click in the Monitored Hosts area) and select Activate Schedule from the

Step 4. If any of the agent hosts is already running a schedule, the Conﬁrm Schedule Activation

dialog box will pop up, asking “Override existing Surveillance Schedule?” Click Yes to

continue, No to cancel.

Step 5. If the activation is successful, the Status column will indicate Scheduled or Running and

the name of the newly downloaded surveillance schedule will be displayed in the

Schedule column of the selected hosts; otherwise, Error or No Agent Available will be

displayed in the Status column.

Step 6. If Error is shown for a host, view the error messages on the Network Node Error tab for

the host; see “Go to Network Node Screen” on page 55 and “The Errors Tab” on page 104.

Then check the status; see “Getting the Status of Agent Hosts” on page 48.

If No Agent Available is shown for a host, see “No Agent Available” on page 234 for

troubleshooting ideas.