Installing the sguil system, Installing the sguil sensor, Installing the sguil server – Force10 Networks PSeries 100-00055-01 User Manual

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Network Security Monitoring

Installing the Sguil System

To employ Sguil you must:

1. Install the sensor. See

page 44

.

2. Install the server. See

page 44

.

3. Install the client. See

page 45

.

Note: You can download the server and client Sguil components directly from the Sguil website at

http://

sguil.sourceforge.net/index.html

. The solution uses a number of components which must be installed. For

your convenience, a simplified install package is provided on the Force10 Networks support website;
please see the instructions in the remainder of this chapter.

Installing the Sguil Sensor

P-Series appliances running version 2.3.0.0 or newer are already capable of operating as a Sguil sensor.

Installing the Sguil Server

The Sguil server package installs the Mysql server and Sguild server packages.

Hardware and Software Requirements

Force10 recommends using a server that has at least 2 GB of RAM, a 3.0 GHz processor, and 150 GB hard
disk with a RAID5 array for speed and reliability.

Sguil runs on a variety of *BSD and Linux-based systems. Force10 has tested compatibility with and
recommends using:

CentOs 5 64 bit Linux version 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5

CentOs 5 32 bit Linux version 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5, or

FreeBSD-6.2-<release>

Note: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) might also be compatible but has not been tested.

To install the server:

Step

Task

Command

1

Copy sguil-server-<version>.tar.gz to the server in which it will be installed.

2

From the directory where the server package is stored,
untar the Sguil server package.

tar -zxvf sguil-server-<version>.tar.gz

3

Change to Bash shell.

bash

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