Re: [sentinix-list] Clearing Snort Database (revisited)

Michel Blomgren <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.sentinix
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 22 December 2003 16:30, M. Morgan wrote:
> Hello all,
>  I'm trying to clear *all* of the alerts in the database and start from
> scratch. If  I use the method discussed last week on the list and go to
> snort_center/alerts/delete alerts/ selected, "all on screen or entire
> query" it will only delete the 50 alerts visable on the screen. There are
> currently 400,000+ in the database  I need to clear.
>
>  Is there a method in snort center to clear "all" of the alerts in one fell
> swoop?

Yes!  "all on screen" will only delete those visible on the screen, but 
"entire queue" will delete those based on what you have selected. If you 
choose to browse all alerts, then everything will be deleted, plain and 
simple.

However, 400k alerts will probably take some time, make sure Snort is stopped 
first!

You can recreate the SnortCenter and Snort database though, but you'll need to 
feed some MySQL queries for this.   Now, I unfortunatly don't have time to 
pull that up, but checkout the SnortCenter and Snort docs (for snortcenter 
search google.com).

>
>  If not, can someone give me the path to the mysql database files so I can
> empty them by hand? I have been unsuccessfull in locating them thus far...

You don't actually delete files when using MySQL, you use the proper tools, 
like a client, "mysql" or "mysqladmin".

>
> Ive looked in:
> /var/lib/mysql#
>
>  and found:
> [email protected]:/var/lib/mysql# ls -al
> total 20592
> drwxr-x---    8 mysql    mysql        4096 Dec 19 16:51 .
> drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Dec 15 04:52 ..
> -rw-rw----    1 mysql    root         1007 Dec 19 16:51 Underdog.err
> -rw-rw----    1 mysql    mysql           3 Dec 19 16:51 Underdog.pid
> drwx------    2 mysql    mysql        4096 Dec 15 04:52 cacti
> -rw-rw----    1 mysql    mysql       25088 Nov 23 11:50
> ib_arch_log_0000000000 -rw-rw----    1 mysql    mysql     5242880 Dec 19
> 16:51 ib_logfile0 -rw-rw----    1 mysql    mysql     5242880 Nov 23 11:50
> ib_logfile1 -rw-rw----    1 mysql    mysql    10485760 Dec 15 15:49 ibdata1
> drwx------    2 mysql    mysql        4096 Dec 15 04:52 mysql
> -rw-rw----    1 mysql    root         1205 Nov 23 11:52 sandbox.err
> drwx------    2 mysql    mysql        4096 Dec 15 04:52 snort
> drwx------    2 mysql    mysql        4096 Dec 15 04:52 snort_archive
> drwx------    2 mysql    mysql        4096 Dec 15 04:52 snortcenter
> drwx------    2 mysql    mysql        4096 Nov 23 11:50 test
>
>  Many thanks.
>
> Michael
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