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

Table A-9 File/Directories Template Properties
Default ValueTypeName
^/.rhosts$ | ^/\.shosts$ | ^/\.profile$ | ^/bin/ | ^/sbin/ |
^/usr/bin/ | ^/usr/sbin/ | ^/usr/local/bin/ | ^/lib/ |^/usr/lib/ |
^/usr/local/lib/ | ^/stand/build/dlkm\.vmunix_test/ |
^/stand/vmunix$ | ^/stand/kernrel$ | ^/stand/bootconf$ |
^/stand/system$ | ^/dev/dsk/ | ^/dev/rdsk/ | ^/dev/rmt/ |
^/dev/rsdsi/ | ^/dev/vg[0-9]*/ | ^/dev/idds$ |
^/usr/dt/config/Xconfig$ | ^/tcb/files/devassign$ |
^/etc/rc\.config\.d/ | ^/etc/opt/sec_mgmt/bastille/ | ^/etc/rbac/
| ^/etc/cmpt/ | ^/etc/passwd$ | ^/etc/shadow$ | ^/etc/group$
| ^/etc/hosts\.equiv$ | ^/etc/hosts\.allow$ | ^/etc/hosts\.deny$
| ^/etc/inetd\.conf$ | ^/etc/auto_master$ | ^/etc/csh\.login$
| ^/etc/ftpd/ftpaccess$ | ^/etc/ftpd/ftpusers$ | ^/etc/inittab$ |
^/etc/opt/ipf/ipf\.conf$ | ^/etc/issue$ | ^/etc/motd$ |
^/etc/mnttab$ | ^/etc/named\.conf$ | ^/etc/securetty$ |
^/etc/default/security$ | ^/etc/mail/sendmail\.cf$ | ^/etc/shells$
| ^/etc/zprofile$ | ^/etc/nsswitch\.conf$ | ^/etc/pam\.conf$ |
^/etc/profile$ | ^/etc/acps\.conf$ | ^/etc/default/security$ |
^/etc/security\.dsc$ | ^/etc/opt/ids/ | ^/opt/ | ^/var/opt/ids/ |
^/opt/ids/ | ^/sbin/init\.d/idsagent$
I
pathnames_to_watch
<empty>I
pathnames_to_not_watch
<empty>II
pathnames_0
<empty>II
programs_0
^/etc/mnttab$ & ^/etc/fstab$ | ^/dev/vg[0-9]*/II
pathnames_1
^/usr/bin/nfsstat$ & ^/usr/sbin/syncer$ & ^/sbin/mount$ &
^/sbin/umount$ & ^/sbin/fs/.*/mount$ &
^/opt/cifsclient/bin/cifsmount$ & ^/sbin/fs/.*/umount$ &
^/opt/cifsclient/bin/cifsumount$ & ^/usr/bin/df$ &
^/usr/bin/bdf$ | ^/sbin/.*display$
II
programs_1
<empty>II
pathnames_X
<empty>II
programs_X
Properties
A brief description about the configurable properties are enlisted below:
pathnames_to_watch
Path names of files to be monitored for modification.
pathnames_to_not_watch
Path names of files that can be safely ignored for
modification, regardless of which program modifies them.
pathnames_X, programs_X
Use these properties to filter out alerts generated when a
particular program modifies a particular file. See “Type II:
Path Names/Programs Pairs” (page 116) for a detailed
description of these property pairs.
Alerts generated by this template
130 Templates and Alerts