Re: open source artificial ignorance-like systems

James Turnbull <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.loganalysis
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Anton Chuvakin wrote:
> Hmm, what's wrong with "grep -v" for artificial ignorance?
> 
>> Like always ignore xyz.*,
>> ignore abcd.* unless it happens more than X times in Y time frame
> 
> Well, SEC can do this one ...
> 
> Also, I wouldn't blindly auto-populate the library of things to ignore
> - just because something happens 5000 times the first time it does,
> doesn't mean its benign :-)

I second the recommendation for SEC.  It will more than adequately take
care of these requirements.  I also second the concept of using
thresholding for ignoring messages rather than generically ignoring a
particular message.

http://www.estpak.ee/~risto/sec/

Regards

James Turnbull

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