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Re: High availability design of NIDS

Subject: Re: High availability design of NIDS
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:46:52 +0100
El mar, 22-02-2005 a las 17:26 +0800, Vincent IP escribiÃ:
Hi all,

I am now designing an NIDS solution. In the design, I would like to
include high availability (HA) feature for my NIDS solution so that when
one of the sensor is dead, the other (resilient) sensor can take up the
monitoring job automatically.

If the NIDS is not running in stealthy mode, I think I could use the
Cluster service of Windows to monitor the network in HA mode. (assuming
both sensors can listen to all traffics in the network).

However, if I need to run the NIDS in stealthy mode, could I also use the
Cluster service to monitor the network in HA mode? Are there any products
already enabling HA feature?

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Pong

I've installed two snort sensors logging to a MySQL database with
internal storage, using heartbeat, drdb and some hacks, in high
availability. But it runs under Linux. If you are interested, post 
another message and I will tell you how I did it, but you talk about 
Windows, so I don't know if you are interested in the information.

Regards.

-- 

Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez
Director Tecnico de bgSEC
jkerouac@bgsec.com
bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos
http://www.bgsec.com
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