HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System Version 4.7 Administrator Guide HP-UX 11i v3 (766144-001, March 2014)

Table 56 Agent Error Messages (continued)
ActionMeaningError Message
limit on file descriptors may have been
reached.
Contact HP support.The idsagent encountered an error while
attempting to activate a surveillance group.
idsagent: failed to start group
The surveillance group may contain
detection templates that are not supported
on this version of the idsagent.
Contact HP support.The idsagent encountered an error while
attempting to deactivate a surveillance
group.
idsagent: failed to stop group
Evaluate the errors in the /var/
opt/ids/error.log log file.
Contact HP support.
A problem occurred during idagent
initialization.
idsagent: idsagent initialization
failed. See /var/opt/ids/error.log
for details. Exiting
Verify that the crontab entry for
user ids exists. Contact HP support.
The idsagent was unable to correctly
determine which surveillance group to start
or stop.
idsagent: internal error in handling
signature groups
Contact HP support.An HP-UX HIDS subprocess has died
unexpectedly.
idsagent: one of the IDS processes
died abnormally: halting schedule
execution
Execute the
IDS_importAgentKeys program
The final stage of the certificate installation
process was not performed.
idsagent: please run the /opt/
ids/bin/
to import the certificates for this
agent.
IDS_importAgentKeys script to
complete IDS installation
Contact HP support.An HP-UX HIDS agent subprocess with PID
pid and name pname has failed
unexpectedly, as described in msg.
idsagent: process (PID:pid) pname
died abnormally with error: msg
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred in handling
signals.
idsagent: unable to set up SIGCHLD
signal handler
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred in handling
signals.
idsagent: unable to set up SIGHUP
signal handler
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred in handling
signals.
idsagent: unable to set up signal
handler
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred in handling
signals.
idsagent: unable to set up SIGSEGV
signal handler
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred in handling
signals.
idsagent: unable to set up SIGTERM
signal handler
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred in handling
signals.
idsagent: unable to set up SIGUSR1
signal handler
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred in handling
signals.
idsagent: unable to set up SIGUSR2
signal handler
Contact HP support.The idsagent failed to parse the surveillance
schedule.
idsagent: an error occurred parsing
the schedule
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred while opening
the surveillance schedule file file.
idsagent: cannot get file pointer for
schedule file - file.
Verify that the alert response script
has execute permissions.
The idsagent was unable to execute alert
response script script.
idsagent: could not execute alert
response script script.
Verify that the log file is owned by
user:group ids:ids; that the ids user
If a log file created by idsagent has been
changed, then idsagent attempts to
reopen it. The open attempt failed.
idsagent: could not get latest stat
info on log file file
has read and write permissions on
196 Error Messages