05-09-2008 04:44 AM
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Dan Bruhn
NetPro Community Manager
05-09-2008 04:57 AM
<< looking into horses mouth >>
Dan,
Why not a subforum under security?
05-09-2008 09:37 AM
Matthew,
Over the next several months we'll be introducing some new community tools specific to MARS. These new features will be sub topics under MARS which is why it's now a stand alone forum. We decided to launch the discussion area immediately so members can start populating the board while we complete work on the new tools.
Cheers,
Dan Bruhn
NetPro Community Manager
05-09-2008 09:40 AM
thanks for the explaination.
05-10-2008 11:01 AM
Great to have a special forum for MARS !
Are there any best practices documents that would get me up to speed with customizing MARS to show more focused alerts? For instance until I've configured IPS events into MARS, syslog events from ASA/FWSM were not enough for MARS to conclude that a scan is being performed.
I tried to make a lot of "noise" with hacking tools such as Nessus across the firewalls w/o any special "Critical" level alerts.
Thanks,
Yigal
05-13-2008 06:50 PM
Hi Korolevski,
I dont have clear your question, but the first thing would be to upgrade to the latest version so you have more and latest MARS signatures.
Depending on the size of your network the alerts will vary.
Hope it helped you a bit.
05-13-2008 06:54 PM
QUESTION:
** How can I know the Netflows per second (Netflows/sec) in a running MARS? **
My intent is to measure how close I am with a certain MARS appliance (CS-MARS 20, 50, etc) to it's physical limits.
Thanks
05-14-2008 05:59 AM
You should probably start a new conversion for this question. You can view the Admin-->System Maintenance-->View log files. Do a search for "Netflow Rate".
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