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

3. Create a name for the new surveillance schedule.
a. Press the Copy button on the Schedules panel. This opens the Copy Surveillance
Schedule dialog box (Figure 5-3).
Figure 5-3 Copy Surveillance Schedule Dialog
b. Enter a name in the input field. Valid characters are alphanumeric and underscore; the
first character must be alphanumeric. Schedule names are case-sensitive. If you include
invalid characters, you will be prompted to replace them with underscores.
c. Click OK to accept it and Cancel to exit the dialog box.
The new schedule’s groups, templates, and values are identical to the old schedule’s.
4. To revise the new schedule, follow the procedures in “Modifying a Surveillance Schedule”
(page 62).
Modifying a Surveillance Schedule
To modify a surveillance schedule, follow the steps:
1. On the Schedule Manager screen select a schedule in the schedules panel.
2. If necessary, create new surveillance groups. For more information, see “Configuring
Surveillance Groups” (page 64) for details.
3. Select the Configure tab.
4. In the Select column of the Surveillance Groups panel, click the check boxes to mark the
surveillance groups you want to include in the schedule. You can also use the Select All
and Clear All buttons to mark all or none of the groups.
5. Select the Timetable tab.
6. Specify the times and days that you want each group in the surveillance schedule to run.
For more information, see “Setting Surveillance Schedule Timetables” (page 70).
7. Select the Alert Aggregation tab. Configure alert aggregation by following the steps described
under “Configuring Alert Aggregation” (page 72).
8. When your surveillance schedule is complete, it is a good idea to save it to the disk. For
more information, see “Saving a Surveillance Schedule” (page 63).
NOTE: The changes you make to a schedule are not propagated to any agent host until you
activate it from the System Manager screen. If you modify a running schedule, you need to
activate the schedule again to apply the changes.
Renaming a Surveillance Schedule
To rename a surveillance schedule, follow the steps:
1. On the Schedule Manager screen, select the schedule in the Schedules panel.
62 Using the Schedule Manager Screen