Re: [Snort-users] SMB alerts

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Old 08-17-2004
Martin Roesch
 
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Default Re: [Snort-users] SMB alerts

We dumped it, it was a fun idea back in ~1.0 but it's a bad idea now. =20=

I'd recommend post processing events with swatch or something similar=20
to get the same capability back.

-Marty

On Aug 13, 2004, at 5:09 PM, Joshua Berry wrote:

> I believe that the smb output plugin was removed from Snort 2.1.3.=A0 =

It=20
> is not even an option in my configure script.
>
> =A0
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: snort-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net=20
> [mailto:snort-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Scott=20
> Elgram
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:55 PM
> To: snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Snort-users] SMB alerts
>
> =A0
>
> Hello,
>
> =A0=A0=A0 I am having a bit of trouble getting SMB alerts to work.=A0 =

I have=20
> compiled snort-2.1.3 "--with-mysql=3D/usr/local/mysql=20
> --enable-smbalerts".=A0 And I added this to the ruleset containing the=20=


> rules I want to be alerted for.
>
> =A0
>
> ruletype smb_db_alert {
>
> =A0=A0=A0 type alert
>
> =A0=A0=A0 output alert_msb: workstation.list
>
> =A0=A0=A0 output database: log, mysql, user=3D<dbuser> =

password=3D<password>=20
> dbname=3Dsnort host=3Dlocalhost encoding=3Dhex detail=3DFull
>
> }
>
> =A0
>
> However, After all that when I start snort i get;
>
> =A0
>
> ERROR: unknown output plugin: 'alert_smb'Fatal Error, Quitting
>
> =A0
>
> Any help would be appreciated greatly.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Scott
>

--=20
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roesch@sourcefire.com - http://www.sourcefire.com
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