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 4-1 Monitored Nodes
DescriptionColumn
The current state of an agent host and any surveillance
schedule. The possible status values are described in
Table 4-2 (page 50).
Status
The host name assigned on the Host Manager screen.
Host
The host IP address assigned on the Host Manager
screen.
Address
The tag name assigned on the Host Manager screen.
Tag
The name of the surveillance schedule that is currently
loaded, scheduled or running on this host. Displays
None if no schedule is currently loaded.
Schedule
The total number of alerts generated by a host. The
highest severity of all alerts is color-coded with a red
(high), yellow (medium), or blue (low) bar.
Total Alerts
The number of alerts that have not yet been marked
as seen. The highest severity of all unseen alerts is
color-coded with a red (high), yellow (medium), or
blue (low) bar
Unseen Alerts
Status line: the bottom line of the screen shows the processing and completion status
for the commands you execute.
Table 4-2 Status Field Values
DescriptionStatus Value
The agent is activating the schedule.
Activating
The agent is running on the host, but is not running a
schedule.
Available
The System Manager is downloading a schedule to the
agent.
Downloading
The agent detected an error; check the error log.
Error
No agent was detected.
No Agent Available
The System Manager is communicating with the host.
Polling
The System Manager and agent are resynchronizing.
Resyncing
The schedule is running on the agent.
Running
The schedule is waiting for its next active time block on
the agent.
Scheduled
The System Manager does not know the status of the
agent host.
Status Unknown
The agent is stopping its current schedule.
Stopping Schedule
Using the System Manager screen, you can perform the following tasks:
• “Getting the Status of Agent Hosts” (page 51)
• “Resynchronizing Agent Hosts” (page 52)
• “Activating Schedules on Agent Hosts” (page 53)
• “Stopping Schedules on Agent Hosts” (page 53)
• “Starting HP-UX HIDS Agents” (page 51)
50 Using the System Manager Screen