Appendix B Signature Engines

Service Engines

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For more information on the parameters common to all signature engines, see Master Engine, page B-4.

For a list of the signature regular expression syntax, see Regular Expression Syntax, page B-9.

Service SNMP Engine

The Service SNMP engine inspects all SNMP packets destined for port 161. You can tune SNMP signatures and create custom SNMP signatures based on specific community names and object identifiers.

Instead of using string comparison or regular expression operations to match the community name and object identifier, all comparisons are made using the integers to speed up the protocol decode and reduce storage requirements.

Table B-29lists the parameters specific to the Service SNMP engine.

Table B-29

Service SNMP Engine Parameters

 

 

 

 

 

Parameter

 

Description

Value

 

 

 

 

inspection-type

 

Enables the SNMP inspection type.

brute-force-inspection

 

 

 

(default)

 

 

 

invalid-packet-inspection

 

 

 

non-snmp-traffic-inspection

 

 

 

snmp-inspection

 

 

 

brute-force-inspection

Enables brute force inspection:

0 to 65535

 

 

brute-force-count—Specifies the

 

 

 

number of unique SNMP

 

 

 

community names that constitute a

 

 

 

brute force attempt.

 

 

 

 

invalid-packet-inspection

Inspects for SNMP protocol violations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Sensor CLI Configuration Guide for IPS 7.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OL-29168-01

 

 

B-57

 

 

 

 

 

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