HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System Version 4.3 administrator guide
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- 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
Step 3: Updating and Deploying the Schedule........................................................................184
Generating Alert Reports Using the idsadmin Command.................................................................184
The idsadmin Command Reporting Options................................................................................185
Using the idsadmin Command to Generate Reports..................................................................187
Benefits of Generating Reports in raw Format.........................................................................190
D The Agent Configuration File...................................................................................191
The Agent Configuration File.............................................................................................................191
Forcing Active Agent to Reread Configuration File......................................................................191
Log File Rotation............................................................................................................................191
Global Configuration..........................................................................................................................192
Correlator Process Configuration.......................................................................................................193
Data Source Process Configuration....................................................................................................194
Kernel Audit Data DSP..................................................................................................................194
Remote Communication Configuration.............................................................................................195
E The Surveillance Schedule Text File.........................................................................197
Getting Started....................................................................................................................................197
Automating the Activation of Surveillance Schedules.......................................................................197
Surveillance Schedule Text File...........................................................................................................198
Surveillance Schedule Section.............................................................................................................198
Surveillance Group Section.................................................................................................................200
F Error Messages...........................................................................................................203
Agent Messages...................................................................................................................................203
System Manager Messages.................................................................................................................207
G Troubleshooting.........................................................................................................213
Troubleshooting..................................................................................................................................213
Agent and System Manager cannot communicate with each other..............................................214
Agent complains that idds has not been enabled, yet lsdev shows /dev/idds is present.....214
Agent does not start on system boot.............................................................................................214
Agent halts abnormally, leaving ids_* files and message queues..............................................216
Agent host appears to hang and/or you see message disk full...............................................216
Agent needs further troubleshooting............................................................................................216
Agent does not start after installation...........................................................................................216
Agents appear to be stuck in polling status..................................................................................217
Agent displays error if hostname to IP mapping is not registered in name service.....................217
Aggregated alerts targets or details field are truncated and the same aggregated alert has several
entries logged in the IDS_ALERTFILE.........................................................................................217
Alert date/time sort seems inconsistent.........................................................................................218
Alerts are not being displayed in the alert browser......................................................................218
Buffer overflow triggers false positives.........................................................................................218
Duplicate alerts appear in System Manager..................................................................................218
Getting several aggregated alerts for the same process................................................................218
GUI runs out of memory after receiving around 19,000 alerts......................................................219
The idsadmin Command needs installed agent certificates.......................................................219
The idsadmin Command notifies of bad certificate when pinging a remote agent...................219
IDS_checkInstall fails with a kmtune error...........................................................................220
IDS_genAdminKeys or IDS_genAgentCerts does not complete successfully.......................220
IDS_genAdminKeys or idsgui quits early...................................................................................220
Large files in /var/opt/ids.......................................................................................................220
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