HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System Version 4.3 administrator guide
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System Version 4.3 administrator guide
- Table of Contents
- About This Document
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Configuring HP-UX HIDS
- 3 Getting Started with HP-UX HIDS
- 4 Using the System Manager Screen
- Starting the HP-UX HIDS System Manager
- Stopping the HP-UX HIDS System Manager
- System Manager Components
- Starting HP-UX HIDS Agents
- Getting the Status of Agent Hosts
- Resynchronizing Agent Hosts
- Activating Schedules on Agent Hosts
- Stopping Schedules on Agent Hosts
- Halting HP-UX HIDS Agents
- Accessing Other Screens
- 5 Using the Schedule Manager Screen
- The Schedule Manager
- Configuring Surveillance Schedules
- Configuring Surveillance Groups
- Configuring Detection Templates
- Setting Surveillance Schedule Timetables
- Configuring Alert Aggregation
- Configuring Monitor Failed Attempts
- Configuring Duplicate Alert Suppression
- Viewing Surveillance Schedule Details
- Predefined Surveillance Schedules and Groups
- 6 Using the Host Manager Screen
- 7 Using the Network Node Screen
- 8 Using the Preferences Screen
- A Templates and Alerts
- Alert Summary
- UNIX Regular Expressions
- Limitations
- Template Property Types
- Buffer Overflow Template
- Race Condition Template
- Modification of files/directories Template
- Changes to Log File Template
- Creation and Modification of setuid/setgid File Template
- Creation of World-Writable File Template
- Modification of Another User’s File Template
- Login/Logout Template
- Repeated Failed Logins Template
- Repeated Failed su Commands Template
- Log File Monitoring Template
- B Automated Response for Alerts
- C Tuning Schedules and Generating Alert Reports
- D The Agent Configuration File
- E The Surveillance Schedule Text File
- F Error Messages
- G Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting
- Agent and System Manager cannot communicate with each other
- Agent complains that idds has not been enabled, yet lsdev shows /dev/idds is present
- Agent does not start on system boot
- Agent halts abnormally, leaving ids_* files and message queues
- Agent host appears to hang and/or you see message disk full
- Agent needs further troubleshooting
- Agent does not start after installation
- Agents appear to be stuck in polling status
- Agent displays error if hostname to IP mapping is not registered in name service
- Aggregated alerts targets or details field are truncated and the same aggregated alert has several entries logged in the IDS_ALERTFILE
- Alert date/time sort seems inconsistent
- Alerts are not being displayed in the alert browser
- Buffer overflow triggers false positives
- Duplicate alerts appear in System Manager
- Getting several aggregated alerts for the same process
- GUI runs out of memory after receiving around 19,000 alerts
- The idsadmin Command needs installed agent certificates
- The idsadmin Command notifies of bad certificate when pinging a remote agent
- IDS_checkInstall fails with a kmtune error
- IDS_genAdminKeys or IDS_genAgentCerts does not complete successfully
- IDS_genAdminKeys or idsgui quits early
- Large files in /var/opt/ids
- Log files are filling up
- No Agent Available
- Normal operation of an application generates heavy volume of alerts
- Reflection X rlogin produces multiple login and logout alerts
- Schedule Manager timetable screen appears to hang
- SSH does not perform a clean exit after idsagent is started
- System Manager appears to hang
- System Manager does not let you save files to specific directories
- System Manager does not start after idsgui is started
- System Manager starts with no borders or title bar in X client programs on Windows
- System Manager times out on agent functions such as Activate and Status Poll
- UNKNOWN program and arguments in certain alert messages
- Using HP-UX HIDS with IPFilter and SecureShell
- Unable to Generate Administrator Keys and Agent Certificates on PA–RISC 1.1 Systems
- Troubleshooting
- H HP Software License

List of Figures
1-1 HP-UX HIDS Components............................................................................................................25
4-1 System Manager Screen.................................................................................................................48
5-1 Schedule Manager Screen..............................................................................................................60
5-2 New Surveillance Schedule Dialog...............................................................................................61
5-3 Copy Surveillance Schedule Dialog..............................................................................................62
5-4 Rename Surveillance Schedule Dialog..........................................................................................63
5-5 New Surveillance Group Dialog...................................................................................................64
5-6 Copy Surveillance Group Dialog..................................................................................................65
5-7 Rename Surveillance Group Dialog..............................................................................................66
5-8 Edit Dialog - Edit...........................................................................................................................67
5-9 Edit List Dialog..............................................................................................................................68
5-10 Edit Dialog - Add..........................................................................................................................68
5-11 Edit Dialog - Edit...........................................................................................................................68
5-12 Schedule Manager Screen - Timetable Tab....................................................................................71
5-13 Schedule Manager Screen-Alert Aggregation Tab........................................................................73
5-14 Schedule Manager Screen-Miscellaneous Tab...............................................................................76
5-15 The Duplicate Alert Suppression Tab...........................................................................................77
5-16 Schedule Manager Screen - Details Tab........................................................................................79
5-17 Save Dialog....................................................................................................................................80
5-18 File Saved Dialog...........................................................................................................................80
6-1 Host Manager Screen....................................................................................................................84
6-2 Add Host Dialog Box....................................................................................................................85
6-3 Add Host Dialog: Set IP Address..................................................................................................86
6-4 Add Host Dialog: Set Host Name.................................................................................................86
6-5 Open Dialog...................................................................................................................................87
6-6 Edit Host Entry Dialog..................................................................................................................88
6-7 Edit Host Tag List Dialog..............................................................................................................90
6-8 Add Host Tag Dialog Box..............................................................................................................90
6-9 Save Dialog Box.............................................................................................................................92
6-10 Open Dialog Box...........................................................................................................................93
7-1 Network Node Alerts Tab.............................................................................................................96
7-2 Network Node Error Tab...............................................................................................................97
7-3 Find Dialog....................................................................................................................................99
7-4 Save Dialog Box...........................................................................................................................101
7-5 Open Dialog Box..........................................................................................................................102
8-1 General Preferences Tab..............................................................................................................105
8-2 Alert Events Subtab.....................................................................................................................107
8-3 Error Events Subtab.....................................................................................................................108
8-4 System Manager Subtab..............................................................................................................109
C-1 Flowchart Depicting the Tuning Process.....................................................................................180
C-2 Screenshot of the Generated Report in .html Format...............................................................188
C-3 Screenshot of the Generated Report in text Format....................................................................189
C-4 Screenshot of the Generated Report in .raw Format...................................................................190
10 List of Figures