HP Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) Idsagent failed to initialize configuration module, 224

Messages

Agent Messages

❏Action: Verify that the file exists; that it is owned by user:group ids:ids; and that it is readable by user ids.

idsagent: failed to initialize configuration module

❏Meaning: An error occurred while parsing the ids.cf configuration file. The SSL certificates may not have been created properly, meaning that the REMOTEHOST parameter my not be valid in ids.cf.

❏Action: Check accompanying error messages and correct the problem.

idsagent: failed to reopen stderr in append mode

❏Meaning: An internal error has occurred while attempting to reopen error reporting. The per-process limit on file descriptors may have been reached.

❏Action: Contact HP support.

idsagent: failed to start group

❏Meaning: idsagent has encountered an error while attempting to activate a surveillance group. The surveillance group may contain detection templates that are not supported on this version of the idsagent.

❏Action: Contact HP support.

idsagent: failed to stop group

❏Meaning: idsagent has encountered an error while attempting to deactivate a surveillance group.

❏Action: Contact HP support.

idsagent: idsagent initialization failed. See /var/opt/ids/error.log for details. Exiting

❏Meaning: A problem occurred during idagent initialization.

❏Action: Evaluate the errors in the /var/opt/ids/error.log log file. Call HP support.

idsagent: internal error in handling signature groups

❏Meaning: idsagent was unable to correctly determine which surveillance group to start or stop.

❏Action: Verify that the crontab entry for user ids exists. Contact HP support.

idsagent: one of the IDS processes died abnormally: halting schedule execution

❏Meaning: An HP-UX HIDS subprocess has died unexpectedly.

❏Action: Contact HP support.

idsagent: please run the /opt/ids/bin/IDS_importAgentKeys script to complete IDS installation

❏Meaning: The final stage of the certificate installation process was not performed.

❏Action: Execute the IDS_importAgentKeys program to import the certificates for this agent.

idsagent: process (PID:pid) pname died abnormally with error: msg

❏Meaning: An HP-UX HIDS agent subprocess with PID pid and name pname has failed unexpectedly, as described in msg.

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