topic Re: IDSM2 logging in Network Security

IDSM2 logging

000000jbl — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:49:58 GMT

Is it possible to send events from the IDSM2 to two different aggregation points simultaniously? Say for instance, Cisco MARS and some other SIEM.

Re: IDSM2 logging

Jim Thomas — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:43:07 GMT

Yes, you can use mars or IME (any combination) to both simultaneously pull alerts using sdee from the sensor.

Re: IDSM2 logging

Farrukh Haroon — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:00:09 GMT

MARS and IME both use the 'pull' event architecture to retrive events from IPS devices, and as already answered both can 'pull' events from the same IPS device simultaneously without any issues (except the performance lag). IME will store events in its MSDE database and MARS has its own oracle database (which can be archived using unix NFS). IME is limited to 10 sensors tough.

Regards

Farrukh

Re: IDSM2 logging

000000jbl — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:02:29 GMT

Ok, so do I understand correctly that there is no way to have IDSM send its logs out to a generic log server? I undersatd SDEE and the "pulling" of events from IDSM. Is there no way to have IDSM push? Maybe via syslog rather than SDEE?

Re: IDSM2 logging

Farrukh Haroon — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:55:10 GMT

You are correct, the IPS does not support syslog reporting. You can enable SNMP traps on a per signature basis tough. But once has to be careful not to over whelm the IPS Cpu/memory resources in doing so.

Regards

Farrukh