SNORT: email alert
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2.15. Logging to Email Problem
You want to send your Snort logs to email. Solution
First, configure snort.conf to log alerts to syslog:
# alert_syslog: log alerts to syslog # ---------------------------------- # Use one or more syslog facilities as arguments. Win32 can also # optionally specify a particular hostname/port. Under Win32, the # default hostname is '127.0.0.1', and the default port is 514. # # [Unix flavours should use this format...] output alert_syslog: LOG_AUTH LOG_ALERT # # [Win32 can use any of these formats...] # output alert_syslog: LOG_AUTH LOG_ALERT # output alert_syslog: host=hostname, LOG_AUTH LOG_ALERT # output alert_syslog: host=hostname:port, LOG_AUTH LOG_ALERT
Snort sends alerts to the syslog file with the snort: prefix. Edit /.swatchrc to send an email when a Snort event is added to the syslog:
watchfor /snort:/ mail security@company.com,subject=Snort Alert!
Next, make sure you run Swatch to watch for syslog messages in /var/log/messages (some distributions use /var/log/syslog):
[root@localhost root]# swatch -t /var/log/messages
Lastly, run Snort in NIDS mode to use the snort.conf file to invoke the syslog output plug-in:
[root@localhost snort-2.2.x]# snort -l /var/log/snort -c /etc/snort.conf
Discussion
The easiest way to receive Snort alerts via email is to configure Swatch (available at http://swatch.sourceforge.net/) to monitor syslog and send an email when a Snort event is produced. Swatch is a log-monitoring utility that can filter messages from logfiles ...
swatch - Simple Log Analyzer
swatch is a perl program that can run as a daemon and continiously analyze log files for certain patterns to appear and then trigger an email notification.
You do definitley need a working MTA (e.g. dma or postfix) installed on ipfire for swatch to actually work.
Furthermore you need a configuration file that tells swatch for which patterns it should look out and which action to trigger. For Example sending email notification on SNORT prio 1 and 2 alerts, would look like this:
watchfor /Priority\: ([1|2])/ echo=normal mail=alerts@your.domain,subject=[SNORT] Priority $1 Alert
Put this config in a file, e.g. /var/ipfire/snort/swatchrc
Then tell swatch to start in daemon mode and read in the snort log file in “tail” mode. As SNORT alert log entries are multiline texts, seperated by 2 newlines, we also tell swatch to use the 2 new lines as a seperator:
/usr/bin/swatch --daemon -c /var/ipfire/snort/swatchrc --input-record-separator='\n\n' -t /var/log/snort/alert
To start this automatically at system startup, best put it in
/etc/sysconfig/rc.local
swatch, despite being named “simple” is a very powerful tool that can be used for all sorts of neat stuff. Here is another example about what can be done: