Hi Jim,
I have some experience with troubleshooting RS 7.0 Policies.
To implement what you want you have to export the specific Policy in the Policy
Editor.
After you saved the Policy on the harddisk you could open the policy-file with
an text editor (i´d used "vim"). As my intention on editing the policy was for
troubleshooting reasons i could not provide more information on your question.
But by viewing the file you would realize that the syntax isn´t difficult to
understand.
Hope that helps
So long
Markus
Dipl.Wirt.-Inf. Markus Knorr
Competence Center Security
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Von: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] Im Auftrag von Jim
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2005 19:17
An: focus-ids@securityfocus.com
Betreff: Editing ISS RealSecure Network Sensor policy from commandline
Is there any way to edit the Network Sensor (version 7)
policy with a text editor, and reliably apply this policy?
I work for a fairly large MSP and some of our customers
require event filters to be added in large numbers. Adding
these one-at-a-time in the Policy Editor is VERY painful.
For example, one customer yesterday requested that 10 source
IPs ignore 9 signatures when talking to 2 destination IPs. I
would go insane if I had to add 180 individual entries by hand.
I found the "current.policy" file on the sensor itself, but
it seems that changes to this file are not visible in the
console's Policy Editor. For example, if I edit one of the
filters in current.policy and then "Edit Current Policy" from
the Site Protector console, the changes are not there. This
is the case no matter whether I stop the sensor/daemon from
the OS shell or using Stop/Start in Site Protector.
Please let me know if there's any way to do this! I've
scoured Google for about 2 days now, and a couple other
employees here have asked ISS for help with this and have
gotten nowhere.
Thanks very much.
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