SnortSMS 1.4.5 review

SnortSMS is a highly configurable sensor management system that provides the ability to remotely administer Snort [and Barnyard] base

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: SnortSMS Team

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SnortSMS is a highly configurable sensor management system that provides the ability to remotely administer Snort [and Barnyard] based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), push configuration files, add/edit rules, and monitor system health and statistics, all from a simple and clean Web interface console.

Whether you have one or multiple Snort sensors, SnortSMS can help unify and syncronize all sensor configurations.

Here are some key features of "SnortSMS":
Centralized Sensor Management - Unify all sensors under one common console interface. Create and share global configuration policies throughout your IDS sensors. Remotely start and stop sensors.
Barnyard Support - Integrated support for Barnyard including auto-generation of 'sid-msg.map'.
Health Monitoring - Monitor the statistics and health of all your sensors. Our parallel querying engine retrives vital stats from all sensors simustainiously.
Configuration Verification - Uses MD5 checksums to validate sensor config policies with global configuration settings.
Rule Importing - Instantly download and import Snort rules and configuration resources into the SnortSMS libraries.

What's New in This Release:
Added HTTP proxy option to curl for those of you who might need that to import snapshots from the web.
Fixed bug where User Authentication prevented the intitial creation of the config file.
Fixed offset printed in Event details page.
Update the XML parsing class.