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
Chapter 2 Configuring HP-UX HIDS: Describes how to configure HP-UX HIDS System
Manager and Agent software.
Chapter 3 Getting Started with HP-UX HIDS: Provides information about the procedures
you must follow to get the System Manager and agents up and running on the
administrative and monitored systems.
Chapter 4 System Manager Screen: Describes the tasks you can perform using the HP-UX
HIDS System Manager screen.
Chapter 5 Schedule Manager Screen: Describes how to configure surveillance schedules,
surveillance groups, and detection templates using the HP-UX HIDS Schedule
Manager screen.
Chapter 6 Host Manager Screen: Describes how to define hosts to be monitored using
the HP-UX HIDS Host Manager screen.
Chapter 7 Network Node Screen: Describes the tasks you can perform using the HP-UX
HIDS Network Node screen.
Chapter 8 Preferences Screen: Describes the operational and display settings that you can
set on the Preferences screen
Appendix A Templates and Alerts: Describes the detection templates that constitute
surveillance groups. This appendix also describes the alerts that are passed to
the System Manager and to the response programs by the HIDS agent.
Appendix B Automated Response for Alerts: Describes how to use response programs to
process alerts automatically according to your installation policy. It includes a
sample C program, several sample response scripts, and information about a
prepackaged response program that communicates with HP OpenView
VantagePoint Operations.
Appendix C Tuning Schedules and Generating Alert Reports: Provides information and
instructions for using the idsadmin command to tune schedules and generate
alert reports.
Appendix D The Agent Configuration File: Describes the user-configurable options that
can be modified in the HP-UX HIDS agent configuration file, which is located
in /etc/opt/ids/ids.cf.
Appendix E The Surveillance Schedule Text File: Describes the surveillance schedule in
text format for those administrators who want to edit surveillance schedules
using their preferred editor, instead of using the GUI Schedule Manager.
Appendix F Error Messages: Describes errors and messages that may be generated by the
Agent and System Manager programs.
Appendix G Troubleshooting: Describes how to troubleshoot problems on the agent and
administrative systems.
Appendix H HP Software License: Lists the terms and conditions for using HIDS and
OpenSSL.
Typographic Conventions
This document uses the following typographical conventions:
audit(5) An HP-UX manpage. In this example, audit is the name and 5 is the section in
the HP-UX Reference. On the web and on the Instant Information CD, it may
be a link to the manpage itself. From the HP-UX command line, you can enter
“man audit” or “man 5 audit” to view the manpage. See man( 1).
Book Title The title of a book. On the web and on the Instant Information CD, it may be
a link to the book itself.
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