HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System Version 4.1 Administrator's Guide
Procedure 3-2 To Set up hosts and run schedules, follow these steps:
1. Install the agent software on the agent hosts and the System Manager software on
the administration host. For more information, see the HP-UX HIDS Release 4.1
Release Notes.
2. Create SSL certificates for the administration and agent hosts and propagate them
to the host systems. For more information, see “Setting Up HP-UX HIDS Secure
Communications” (page 34).
3. Log in to each agent host as root and start the idsagent program as the ids
user. For more information, see “Starting HP-UX HIDS Agents” (page 61).
NOTE: The ids password field is set to * on installation on both agent and
administration systems, which means you cannot log in directly to ids. For security
reasons, do not assign a password to ids.
a. Login as ids.
# su ids
b. Start the agent program.
$/opt/ids/bin/idsagent
4. Log in to the administration system as root and start the System Manager as the
ids user. For more information, see “Starting the HP-UX HIDS System Manager”
(page 59).
a. Login as ids:
# su ids
b. Start the System Manager program.
$/opt/ids/bin/idsgui
c. The first time you start the System Manager, the product license agreement
is displayed. This text is also printed in “HP Software License” (page 283).
Click Accept to continue or Reject if you are not ready to use the software.
5. Go to the Schedule Manager screen and create surveillance schedules, or use the
predefined schedules. For more information, see “Using the Schedule Manager
Screen” (page 69).
6. Go to the Host Manager screen and select the agent hosts you want to monitor.
These are the systems you started idsagent on in step 3. As described in “Setting
Up HP-UX HIDS Secure Communications” (page 34), the certificate script may
have provided you with a selection of agent hosts. Check the Monitored box for
each host. For more information, see “Using the Host Manager Screen” (page 99).
7. Go to the System Manager screen. For more information, see “Returning to the
System Manager Screen” (page 68).
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