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SELKS | suricata | Nagios monitoring

You wanna monitor suricata via nagios? On Suricata machine do: 1. Create a pipe and set permissions. # mknod -m 666 /var/pipes/suricata.pipe p 2. Let suricata write the fast log to this pipe tuning the /etc/suricata/selks[VERSION]-addin.yaml: outputs: # a line based alerts log similar to Snort’s fast.log – fast: enabled: yes filename: /var/pipes/suricata.pipe append: yes […]

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SELKS | suricata | Scirius | Elasticsearch | Hints

1. Manual update SELKS performs a daily suricata update (via /etc/crontab). To execute it manually call as www-data (!!!) NEVER RUN AS ROOT!!! # /bin/sh -c /bin/bash ‘cd /usr/share/python/scirius/ && . bin/activate && python bin/manage.py updatesuricata && deactivate’ www-data 2. fast.log rotation You MUST restart suricata to create a functional fast.log after logrotate. SIGHUP and/or […]

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SELKS 5.0RC1 | first steps

HINTS: https://github.com/StamusNetworks/SELKS/wiki/SELKS-5.0-RC1/_edit#kibana-dashboards Login as selks-user with password selks-user. $ sudo su – # passwd selks-user # passwd root If you are using version 5.0 RC1 open /etc/scirius/local_settings.py and change KIBANA_DASHBOARDS_PATH = “/opt/selks/kibana6-dashboards/” to KIBANA6_DASHBOARDS_PATH = “/opt/selks/kibana6-dashboards/”. then run (as root) cd /usr/share/python/scirius/ && . bin/activate && python bin/manage.py kibana_reset && deactivate You will not find […]