Snort Installation Manual



It always good to know if someone is attempting to break into your network. This is why we put an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) before the first firewall (external side). You can compare this to having a camera monitoring your front door, without this camera you would never know who even attempted to pick your lock unsuccessfully.

Knowing that an attempt was successful in passing through your firewall can let you focus on real threats and help you cut down on false positives. The other benefit is in environments that use Network Address Translation (NAT). This will allow to you get the real source address by correlating the events between the IDS systems before and after the firewall.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Fix MySQL Database After Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.2

Many users who have installed servers preconfigured GoLive and MySQL on Mac OS X 10.1.x found that MySQL was broken after you upgrade to Mac OS X 10.2. If you run the script early MySql and an error message below as seen in Figure 5.1, you must fix your installation of MySQL on Mac OS X 10.2. The good news is that it is very easy and this step-by-step tutorial will guide you through the process.

When you installed MySQL on Mac OS X 10.1.x you had to create a user account called mysql MySQL to work very well. Now with Mac OS X 10.2, Apple conveniently includes a default MySQL user in the system so that you no longer need to create this user account yourself. The problem addressed in this tutorial arises only when you install MySQL on Mac OS X 10.1.x and then upgrade to Mac OS X 10.2 because the standard user account created on the computer for MySQL is diverted or crushed by a single user Netinfo account of the same name. Bascially, we simply remove the Netinfo user in NetInfo Manager and recreate the standard user account.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

MySQL Workbench Editions

MySQL Enterprise subscription is the most comprehensive offering of MySQL database software, services and support to guarantee that your company reaches the highest levels of reliability, security and uptime. An enterprise subscription includes:

1. The MySQL Enterprise Server - the most reliable, secure, and an updated version of the world’s most popular Open Source database
2. The MySQL Enterprise Monitor - An automated virtual assistant DBA, which monitors all your MySQL servers around the clock, identifies exceptions to MySQL best practices and provides expert advice on fixing the problems discovered
3. MySQL Production Support - technical and advisory support when you need it, with regular service packs, hot fixes, and more.

* MySQL Workbench Editions *

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

MySQL Technical Reference Manual

This is the technical manual about MySQL. This version is about the 3.21.x version of MySQL. This document contains the basic documenatation about MySQL. The primary document is the TeXInfo file. The HTML version is automatically produced with texi2html. The ASCII and info version is produced using makeinfo. The Postscript version isproduced using texi2dvi and divps.

What is MySQL?
MySQL is a SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. SQL is the most popular databaselanguage in the world. MySQL is a client server implementation that consists of a server daemon mysqld and many different client programs/libraries. The main goals of MySQL are speed and robustness. The base upon which MySQL is built is a set of routines that have been used in a highly demandingproduction environment for many years. While MySQL is currently still in development it alreadyoffers a rich and highly useful function set. However, after some testing we came to the conclusion that mSQL was not fast or flexibleenough for our needs. This resulted in a new SQL interface to our database but with almost the sameAPI interface as mSQL. This API was chosen to ease porting of third party code. It is not perfectly clear where the name MySQL derives from. Our base directory and a large amountof our libraries and tools have had the prefix ’my’ for well over 10 years.

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008