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• There are two ways to install Snort onto a Ubuntu Distribution and the easiest is to do it through a command line. If your computer is up to date you can simply type: sudo apt-get install snort. This will then download and install the newest version of snort on your computer through command line.
• Aug 15, 2018  Intrusion Detection System used for the detection of illegal and malicious attempts in the network. Snort is well-known open source intrusion detection system. Web interface (Snorby) can be used for better analysis of alerts. Snort can be used as an intrusion.

I have a Magento website setup on a Linux machine that is based on a Bitnami ready-made image.

The main goal is to be notified by email whenever there might be a potential attack on the site.

My setup:

• Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
• Bitnami Magento Stack 1.9.1.0-0
• Snort 2.9.7.5

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To achieve that I decided to install Snort IDS and email the alerts coming to the syslog using Swatch.

I’ve installed snort by following this tutorial from Snort’s official website.

I've just finished section 9 of that tutorial which means:

• Installed all the perquisites.
• Installed Snort IDS on the machine.
• Setup a test rule to alert when ICMP requests (ping) occurs.

Next to allow Snort to log alerts to syslog I've uncommented this line in the snort.conf file:

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I’ve tested the installation by running this command:

While Snort is running I’ve made a ping request from another system.I can see alerts registering in Snort’s log file but nothing was added to the syslog.

Trail and errors:

1. Run snort as user root.

2. Set syslog to bounce logs to another server (remote syslog).

I don't have great deal of experience with Linux so any help to point me to the right direction will be very much appreciated.

JakeGould

1 Answer

I've posted this question on linuxquestions.org aswell and got an answer.

Following unSpawn reply I've reviewed the rsyslog conf files and found that auth logs are sent to the auto.log file.Which led to a quick fix of adding an additional .conf file to /etc/rsyslog.d with the content:

Also as suggested I've made some changes to the snort execution command (omitting the -q -A console):

after restarting the rsyslog service I found the missing Snort alerts in syslog.

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I have a Magento website setup on a linux machine that is based on a Bitnami ready-made image.
The main goal is to be notified by email whenever there might be a potential attack on the site.

To achieve that I decided to install Snort IDS and email the alerts coming to the syslog using Swatch.
I've installed snort by following this tutorial from Snort's official website.
I've just finished section 9 of that tutorial which means:
Installed all the perquisites.
Installed Snort IDS on the machine.
Setup a test rule to alert when ICMP requests (ping) occurs.
Next to allow Snort to log alerts to syslog I've uncommented this line in the snort.conf file: output alert_syslog: LOG_AUTH LOG_ALERT
I've tested the installation by running this command:
sudo /usr/local/bin/snort -A console -q -u snort -g snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -i eth0
while Snort is running I've made a ping request from another system. I can see alerts registering in Snort's log file but nothing was added to the syslog.

Snort Ids Download

Trail and errors:
1. Run snort as user root.
2. Set syslog to bounce logs to another server (remote syslog).

What Is Snort Ids

I don't have great deal of experience with linux so any help to point me to the right direction will be very much appreciated.
Some facts:

How To Install Snort

1. Bitnami Magento Stack 1.9.1.0-0
2. Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
3. Snort 2.9.7.5