[Bro] Alarms in log vs alarms in report

Brian Tierney bltierney at lbl.gov
Fri Mar 24 07:10:46 PST 2006


The "likely successful, likely unsuccessful, etc" categories are  
generated
by the report generation script, based on whether or not there
are subsequent successful connections to the same host. So there
is no easy way to do this in the logs.


On Mar 21, 2006, at 9:43 PM, François Gagnon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have noticed that Bro can provide the user with a fine grained  
> classification
> of alarms in the reports (likely unsuccessful, likely  
> successful, ...).
> However, in the log, Bro provides me with a less specific  
> classification (alarm
> vs no alarm) with no indication of the potential success (or  
> failure) of the
> attack. I think that the events in the log correspond to likely  
> successful
> attacks only (correct me if I am wrong).
>
> I am wondering if there is any way to get Bro to output all events  
> in the log
> WITH their classification (likely successful, likely  
> unsuccessful, ...) or if
> this feature is reserved specifically for reports ?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> ---
> François Gagnon
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