Re: Snort & email

El miÃ, 04-05-2005 a las 10:16 -0500, Dan S Baxter escribiÃ:
> I'm setting up a Snort sensor in our environment and I am unable to
> determine how I might get emailed on alerts.  I understand some are using
> Swatch, but we are not logging to syslogs but rather to a mysql db.  What
> are others doing in this case?

You can log to syslog and mysql at the same time. Just use both
lines in the Snort config file.

I also think OpenAanval can send you alerts using the mysql database.

> If I can't get it to alert me, it doesn't do me as much good, as I do not
> have the time to watch it 24/7.
>
> Dan Baxter
> International Paper
> Information Risk Management
> 901-419-5193

Regards.

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