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-23 Login/Logout Alert Properties (continued)
DescriptionAlert Value/FormatAlert Field TypeAlert FieldResponse
Program
Argument
Detailed alert description
User <username> logged-in on
<pty> (REMOTE: <fully qualified
host name> <IP address>)orUser
<username> logged-out from a
session on <pty>
StringDetailsargv[8]
The event that triggered
the alert.
Following are the possible values:
• Login
• Logout
StringEventargv[9]
Indicates a login/logout
alert versus an su alert
1IntegerFlagargv[10]
Name of user that logged
in or logged out
<username>
StringUserargv[11]
Name of pty device
associated with login
session
<pty device name>
StringDeviceargv[12]
Name of remote host
from which login was
initiated
<remote hostname>
StringHostnameargv[13]
IP address of remote host
from which login was
initiated
<A.B.C.D> for IPv4 addresses
<A:B:C:D:...> for IPv6 addresses
StringIP Addressargv[14]
Successful su Detected
Table A-24 lists the alert properties this template generates and forwards to a response program
when a successful switch user (su) command is executed.
Table A-24 Successful su Detected Alert Properties
DescriptionAlert Value/FormatAlert Field TypeAlert FieldResponse
Program
Argument
Unique code assigned to
template
7IntegerTemplate codeargv[1]
Template version<version>IntegerVersionargv[2]
Alert severity2 for users listed in
priv_user_list property; 3 for all
other users
IntegerSeverityargv[3]
UTC time in number of
seconds since the epoch
when a successful su
event occurred.
<secs>
IntegerUTC Timeargv[4]
Name of the user who is
attempting to use the su
command,
<username>
StringAttackerargv[5]
The target user of the su
command
<username>
StringTargetargv[6]
Alert summarySuccessful su sessionStringSummaryargv[7]
150 Templates and Alerts