Appendix E Troubleshooting

Gathering Information

Number of exec Clear commands during uptime = 0

Denied Attackers and hit count for each.

Denied Attackers with percent denied and hit count for each.

The Signature Database Statistics.

The Number of each type of node active in the system

Total nodes active = 0

TCP nodes keyed on both IP addresses and both ports = 0

UDP nodes keyed on both IP addresses and both ports = 0

IP nodes keyed on both IP addresses = 0

The number of each type of node inserted since reset

Total nodes inserted = 0

TCP nodes keyed on both IP addresses and both ports = 0

UDP nodes keyed on both IP addresses and both ports = 0

IP nodes keyed on both IP addresses = 0

The rate of nodes per second for each time since reset

Nodes per second = 0

TCP nodes keyed on both IP addresses and both ports per second = 0

UDP nodes keyed on both IP addresses and both ports per second = 0

IP nodes keyed on both IP addresses per second = 0

The number of root nodes forced to expire because of memory constraints

TCP nodes keyed on both IP addresses and both ports = 0

Packets dropped because they would exceed Database insertion rate limits = 0

Fragment Reassembly Unit Statistics for this Virtual Sensor

Number of fragments currently in FRU = 0

Number of datagrams currently in FRU = 0

Number of fragments received since reset = 0

Number of fragments forwarded since reset = 0

Number of fragments dropped since last reset = 0

Number of fragments modified since last reset = 0

Number of complete datagrams reassembled since last reset = 0

Fragments hitting too many fragments condition since last reset = 0

Number of overlapping fragments since last reset = 0

Number of Datagrams too big since last reset = 0

Number of overwriting fragments since last reset = 0

Number of Inital fragment missing since last reset = 0

Fragments hitting the max partial dgrams limit since last reset = 0

Fragments too small since last reset = 0

Too many fragments per dgram limit since last reset = 0

Number of datagram reassembly timeout since last reset = 0

Too many fragments claiming to be the last since last reset = 0

Fragments with bad fragment flags since last reset = 0

TCP Normalizer stage statistics

Packets

Input =

0

 

Packets

Modified = 0

 

Dropped

packets

from queue

= 0

Dropped

packets

due to deny-connection = 0

Duplicate Packets = 0

 

Current

Streams

= 0

 

Current

Streams

Closed = 0

 

Current

Streams

Closing = 0

Current

Streams

Embryonic = 0

Current

Streams

Established = 0

Current

Streams

Denied = 0

 

Total SendAck Limited Packets = 0

Total SendAck Limited Streams = 0

Total SendAck Packets Sent

= 0

Statistics

for the

TCP Stream

Reassembly Unit

Current

Statistics for the

TCP Stream Reassembly Unit

 

 

 

TCP streams currently in the embryonic state = 0

 

 

 

TCP streams currently in the established state = 0

 

 

 

TCP streams currently in the closing state = 0

 

 

 

TCP streams currently in the system = 0

 

 

 

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IPS4520K9 specifications

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