Security Onion through ssh

My previous post on installing Insta-Snorby talked about using my mini-ITX board as an IDS. I LOVED Snorby, but it wasn't supported, and has since migrated to "Security Onion."

Security Onion is nice, but on a headless system it is a little harder to use, and not as friendly as Insta-Snorby. You can still log into Squert with a browser, using 'http://ipaddress/squert/squert.php' but you can't get to squil that way.

So I decided to use X11 to forward my screen, and launch Sguil from the ssh console, having the X11 screen show up on my remote box.

I installed Security Onion, having one interface monitoring my network, and the other accessible through another network.

I then use my Mac to log onto the IDS with: ssh -X user@ip

I then launch either sguil or squert with the following:

/usr/local/bin/sguil.tk

/usr/bin/firefox 'http://localhost/squert/squert.php' (without the tics... but GoDaddy sux, so I have to put them in my blog or it converts it into a mess)

These port the displays to my Mac, and I can monitor my IDS.

To be honest, I liked Insta-Snorby a lot better than the Security Onion, as I loved the cool outputs it had on the home screen better. But they both rock for IDSs

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