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 Examples
B-1 Response Program.......................................................................................................................171
B-2 Sending Alerts Through Email....................................................................................................172
B-3 Storing Alerts in Log Files...........................................................................................................172
B-4 Disabling a User Account............................................................................................................173
B-5 Disabling Remote Networking....................................................................................................174
B-6 Putting a Process to Sleep............................................................................................................175
B-7 Taking a Snapshot of Critical System State.................................................................................176
B-8 Restoring Safe Copies of Files......................................................................................................177
C-1 To tune schedules for two agents without any user interaction.................................................183
C-2 To tune schedules for two agents after a given date, with options to review and modify the
Tune Command Report and the schedule...................................................................................183
C-3 To tune schedules for all agents in the sentinal.hosts file, and to review and modify the
Tune Command Report and the schedule...................................................................................183
C-4 Suggested Exact Filters................................................................................................................184
C-5 Suggested Filters with Regular Expressions...............................................................................184
C-6 To generate a report for all the managed agents starting from a particular date.......................188
C-7 To generate a report for an agent showing only the date and time (local), severity, attacker,
target, and to email the report in text format to a specified email address................................189
C-8 To generate individual reports for all agents listed in the sentinal.hosts file, sorted by
severity starting from January 01 2007........................................................................................189
C-9 To generate a report listing only the critical alerts for all agents listed in the sentinal.hosts
file starting from January 01 2007, and to display the report in raw format using commas to
delimit alert fields........................................................................................................................189
C-10 5. To generate a report for all agents listing only alerts related to failed logins, logouts, and
failed su attempts. The report is emailed to the specified email address with a customized
message and subject line..............................................................................................................190
C-11 To generate a report for all agents listed in the sentinal.hosts file starting from January
01 2007, displaying only the specified fields. The report is in raw format and emailed to the
specified email address................................................................................................................190
E-1 A Sample Surveillance Schedule Text File...................................................................................201
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