Host Intrusion Detection System Administrator's Guide Release 3.1

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 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; for more information see “Go to Network Node Screen” on page 56 and “The

Errors Tab” on page 106. Then check the status; for more information 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 252 for

troubleshooting ideas.