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Managing Security with Snort & IDS Tools
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Managing Security with Snort & IDS Tools

by Kerry J. Cox, Christopher Gerg
August 2004
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
8h 30m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Appendix A. Snort and ACID Database Schema

The following tables are in a database configured for Snort and ACID:

acid_ag

event

sensor

acid_ag_alert

icmphdr

sig_class

acid_event

iphdr

sig_reference

acid_ip_cache

opt

signature

data

reference

tcphdr

detail

reference_system

udphdr

encoding

schema

Figure A-1 shows the relationship between the tables.

The relationship between the tables
Figure A-1. The relationship between the tables

A description of each table follows.

acid_ag

+----------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field    | Type             | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+----------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| ag_id    | int(10) unsigned |      | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| ag_name  | varchar(40)      | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
| ag_desc  | text             | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
| ag_ctime | datetime         | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
| ag_ltime | datetime         | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
+----------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+

acid_ag_alert

+--------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field  | Type             | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+--------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| ag_id  | int(10) unsigned |      | PRI | 0       |       |
| ag_sid | int(10) unsigned |      | PRI | 0       |       |
| ag_cid | int(10) unsigned |      | PRI | 0       |       |
+--------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

acid_event

+--------------+------------------+------+-----+---------------------+-------+ ...
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