Implement Intrusion Prevention System from SNORT IDS - snort

I have currently installed Snort 2.9.0.4 on Fedora 14 . The Snort IDS Mode is running perfectly, I want to Implement an IPS from the Snort IDS.. I am completely New to linux environment.

You configure the snort config file such that logs are entered in a SQL database (create database in sql) and use BASE, so by that you can view all logs in customized manner.

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Apache CloudStack: No templates showing when adding instance

I have setup the apache cloudstack on CentOS 6.8 machine following quick installation guide. The management server and KVM are setup on the same machine. The management server is running without problems. I was able to add zone, pod, cluster, primary and secondary storage from the web interface. But when I tried to add an instance it is not showing any templates in the second stage as you can see in the screenshot
However, I am able to see two templates under Templates link in web UI.
But when I select the template and navigate to Zone tab, I see Timeout waiting for response from storage host and Ready field shows no.
When I check the management server logs, it seems there is an error when cloudstack tries to mount secondary storage for use. The below segment from cloudstack-management.log file describes this error.
2017-03-09 23:26:43,207 DEBUG [c.c.a.t.Request] (AgentManager-Handler-
14:null) (logid:) Seq 2-7686800138991304712: Processing: { Ans: , MgmtId:
279278805450918, via: 2, Ver: v1, Flags: 10, [{"com.cloud.agent.api.Answer":
{"result":false,"details":"com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException:
GetRootDir for nfs://172.16.10.2/export/secondary failed due to
com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException: Unable to mount
172.16.10.2:/export/secondary at /mnt/SecStorage/6e26529d-c659-3053-8acb-
817a77b6cfc6 due to mount.nfs: Connection timed out\n\tat
org.apache.cloudstack.storage.resource.NfsSecondaryStorageResource.getRootDir(Nf
sSecondaryStorageResource.java:2080)\n\tat
org.apache.cloudstack.storage.resource.NfsSecondaryStorageResource.execute(NfsSe
condaryStorageResource.java:1829)\n\tat
org.apache.cloudstack.storage.resource.NfsSecondaryStorageResource.executeReques
t(NfsSecondaryStorageResource.java:265)\n\tat
com.cloud.agent.Agent.processRequest(Agent.java:525)\n\tat
com.cloud.agent.Agent$AgentRequestHandler.doTask(Agent.java:833)\n\tat
com.cloud.utils.nio.Task.call(Task.java:83)\n\tat
com.cloud.utils.nio.Task.call(Task.java:29)\n\tat
java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)\n\tat
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)\
n\tat
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)\
n\tat java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)\n","wait":0}}] }
Can anyone please guide me how to resolve this issue? I have been trying to figure it out for some hours now and don't know how to proceed further.
Edit 1: Please note that my LAN address was 10.103.72.50 which I assume is not /24 address. I tried to give CentOs a static IP by making the following settings in ifcg-eth0 file
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=52:54:00:B9:A6:C0
NM_CONTROLLED=no
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=172.16.10.2
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=172.16.10.1
DNS1=8.8.8.8
DNS2=8.8.4.4
But doing this would stop my internet. As a workaround, I reverted these changes and installed all the packages first. Then I changed the IP to static by the same configuration settings as above and ran the cloudstack management. Everything worked fine untill I bumped into this template thing. Please help me figure out what might have went wrong
I know I'm late, but for people trying out in the future, here it goes:
I hope you have successfully added a host as mentioned in Quick Install Guide before you changed your IP to static as it autoconfigures VLANs for different traffic and creates two bridges - generally with names 'cloud' or 'cloudbr'. Cloudstack uses the Secondary Storage System VM for doing all the storage-related operations in each Zone and Cluster. What seems to be the problem is that secondary storage system vm (SSVM) is not able to communicate with the management server at port 8250. If not, try manually mounting the NFS server's mount points in the SSVM shell. You can ssh into the SSVM using the below command:
ssh -i /var/cloudstack/management/.ssh/id_rsa -p 3922 root#<Private or Link local Ip address of SSVM>
I suggest you run the /usr/local/cloud/systemvm/ssvm-check.sh after doing ssh into the secondary storage system VM (assuming it is running) and has it's private, public and link local IP address. If that doesn't help you much, take a look at the secondary storage troubleshooting docs at Cloudstack.
I would further recommend, if anyone in future runs into similar issues, check if the SSVM is running and is in "Up" state in the System VMs section of Infrastructure tab and that you are able to open up a console session of it from the browser. If that is working go on to run the ssvm-check.sh script mentioned above which systematically checks each and every point of operation that SSVM executes. Even if console session cannot be opened up, you can still ssh using the link local IP address of SSVM which can be accessed by opening up details of SSVM and than execute the script. If it says, it cannot communicate with Management Server at port 8250, I recommend you check the iptables rules of management server and make sure all traffic is allowed at port 8250. A custom command to check the same is nc -v <mngmnt-server-ip> 8250. You can do a simple search and learn how to add port 8250 in your iptables rules if that is not opened. Next, you mentioned you used CentOS 6.8, so it probably uses older versions of nfs, so execute exportfs -a in your NFS server to make sure all the NFS shares are properly exported and there are no errors. I would recommend that you wait for the downloading status of CentOS 5.5 no GUI kvm template to be complete and its Ready status shown as 'Yes' before you start importing your own templates and ISOs to execute on VMs. Finally, if your ssvm-check.sh script shows everything is good and the download still does not start, you can run the command: service cloud restart and actually check if the service has gotten a PID using service cloud status as the older versions of system vm templates sometimes need us to manually start the cloud service using service cloud start even after the restart command. Restarting the cloud service in SSVM triggers the restart of downloading of all remaining templates and ISOs. Side note: the system VMs uses a Debian kernel if you want to do some more troubleshooting. Hope this helps.

How to MFDeploy a configuration file

Colleagues and users testing various features in a program use MFDeploy to install for example "MyApp.exe" onto their Netduino +2. This method works great. Is there a way to also MFDeploy a "MyApp.config" text file so they can set their specific network criteria (like Port#) or other program preferences? Obviously, more robust preferences can be set from desktop software or web app AFTER the connection is established.
After several days researching, I could not find a viable means of transferring a config file via MFDeploy. Decided to add a "/install" command line option to the desktop app:
cncBuddyUI.exe [/help|/?] [/reset] [/discover] [/install:[axisA=X|Y] ,port=9999]]
/help|/? Show this help/usage information
/reset Create new default software configuration
/discover Listen for cncBuddyCAM broadcasting IPAddress & Port (timeout 30 secs)
/install Install hardware specific settings on Netduino+2 SDCard.
port Network port number (default=80)
axisA Slave axisA motor signals to X or Y axis
During "/install" mode, once cncBuddyCAM (Netduino app) network connects to cncBuddyUI (desktop app), the configuration parameters are transmitted and written onto the SDCard (\SD\config.txt).
Every warm boot now reads \SD\config.txt at startup and loads the configuration parameters into the appropriate application variables.
After several weeks of usage, I find this method preferable and easier to customize. Check out cncBuddy on Github.

Enabling FIPS on google compute engine instance

In trying to get FIPS enabled on a CentOS instance that is already up and running, I've looked at both RHEL documentation and gcloud's limited documentation, but to no avail.
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Security_Guide/chap-Federal_Standards_and_Regulations.html#sec-Enabling-FIPS-Mode
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/building-images simply points you to https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gcrypt/Enabling-FIPS-mode.html
/proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled exists, w/ a numeric value of 0, but cannot be edited, even by root.
Has anyone been able to enable FIPS?
I was able to enable FIPS mode on both RHEL7 and CentOS7 instances on GCE by following the guide you have mentioned.
[root#fips-centos ~]# cat /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled
1
Note that values in proc cannot be always simply edited. For this particular change you need to modify kernel boot parameters and reboot the instance to see configuration in effect.
Try to follow the guide to the letter and I am sure you will be able to enable FIPS mode.

JBOSS 7 Monitoring Tools

Any good suggestion for Monitoring JBOSS 7 in Production ? I would also like to configure alerts based on certain condition. Of course , It has to be Open source.
Thanks.
You can use standard JConsole that comes with JBoss dependencies added. It's used to monitor your servers state and mbeans, it's very useful.
To test it on localhost start your server and then run the JConsole from your server/bin directory and select JBoss in the Local process selection.
To use it on "remote" server, start your server on "REMOTE_HOST" and then run JConsole from an JBoss/bin directory and connect with the followin string
service:jmx:jmx-remoting://REMOTE_HOST_NAME:9999 (or the port you use) and enter the username and password.
Secondly, for more detailed info of objects creation, memory leaks, CPU% (profiling) there is another one as:
http://jbossprofiler.jboss.org/
You can try to use free open source APM like scouter.
It shows very useful realtime performance information of every request.
And also you can set a threshold of resources and can make plugin for alerting to external.
https://github.com/scouter-project/scouter
JBoss7 need to set module option.
-Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=~~~,scouter

configure users using opensips 1.11(Ubuntu 14.04)

After installing opensips(It will be better if i won't have to use opensips control panel) how can add users and can make test call.
Note:
I am a newbie, and following this guide for installation.
http://www.opensips.org/Documentation/Install-CompileAndInstall-1-11
Instead of using the Control Panel, you can use opensipsctl in order to add new subscribers. All you need to do is:
opensipsctl add liviu#opensips.org mypassword
For more help on the opensipsctl, simply type:
opensipsctl
For any user that's trying to install the package under Ubuntu by instructions from official manual, please make sure that you also read setup manual from github page, section [C] and [D]
https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/blob/master/INSTALL
I've tried to do a fresh setup of opensips on a virtual machine to test the functions. The provided packages on Jessie branch of Debian (which is supported by Ubuntu 14.04) is not included MySQL database deployment.
For a quick test I'm using the DBText as DB engine, and using command to add user will not succeed. Because the DBText engine requires email field, however the opensipsctl interface doesn't understand, so we should add some subscribers by adding some lines to Subscriber table, basically is located under path /usr/local/etc/opensips/dbtext, e.g:
1:brian:192.168.186.129:password:123456:xxx:xxx:xxx
2:julia:192.168.186.129:password:123456:xxx:xxx:xxx
Example above using the ip which is the virtual machine ip.
Good luck.