Ossim Install
Karlotta Neifert
The free, open source LevelBlue OSSIM ISO file can be found on the LevelBlue OSSIM product page. Download the ISO file and save it to your computer. Before installation, be sure to make sure you have met the system requirements listed below. LevelBlue OSSIM does not support paravirtualization, and requires full virtualization for network and storage.
I am having a very annoying issue trying to setup Alienvault OSSIM. I am Running ESXi 6.0 and I keep getting an install failed at the Select and Install Software step. I have tried turning off the NIC before installing as some have suggested but it did not help. I have tried installing this on a bare metal server as well with no better luck. Any suggestions?
Note: These are only minimum system requirements for basic operation, and may not be the optimal settings for all instances. For example, an instance of AlienVault OSSIMprocessing an average of 1000-2000 EPS (events per second), a system with 8CPU Cores, 16-24GB RAM, and a 500GB-1TB HDD would be recommended.
AlienVault by default is a .iso image. It installed on the core of Debian. I want to install it on Ubuntu 12.04. How can I do that?! Is it possible or not? (AlienVault is a SIEM product; it is an open-source monitoring security logs .., and is used in a Security Operations Center. I need to install it on Ubuntu. All the files of this product are in the pool directory of its Debian .iso image.
You can install it on VM or operating system. It can not be installed how you want it since it is not a package. If you are asking it having a specific network diagram at the back of your mind that needs to be changed since SIEM will be installed independently, but it can still integrate different operating solutions to itself even after.
For this post, I will show you how to setup Unraid to run AlienVault OSSIM as a VM. OSSIM is a powerful open-source SIEM that you can leverage on your network for free. I use OSSIM for network-wide vulnerability scanning and endpoint host intrusion detection.
I accidentally recently botched my OSSIM bare-metal install that was running on an old Dell workstation. It did a great job since resource requirements are relatively minimal for OSSIM. When I attempted to modify some install files on OSSIM via APT, however, I made a crucial mistake and decided to rebuild OSSIM from scratch. Revisiting the VM on Unraid configuration made sense again.
This time, I was able to find the correct combination of settings in the Unraid VM options to successfully load, install, and post-install boot the OSSIM OS. Maybe, overall, it was a lot easier than I made it originally, but I thought that documenting it would be beneficial, as I was unable to find any walkthroughs or tutorials for this specific setup.
Save the configuration page and load the VM. From here, you should be able to follow the OSSIM install as you would in any other environment. The vDisk will be selected for install automatically unless you happen to add another disk above for your own configuration needs. When it comes time for the install to install the GRUB bootloader, it will fail. Continue with the install WITHOUT a bootloader when the install asks. Once the install completes and the VM restarts, you should be able to configure your OSSIM admin credentials!
OSSIM is extremely powerful and can be complicated to use. If you are not already familiar with OSSIM, I recommend doing some intense Google searching about SIEM tools in general and specifically about configuration recommendations for OSSIM. It may be a little overkill for your Home Lab, but it is a valuable tool to be comfortable with for any security practitioner.
I noticed around 2015 that SIEM became the new buzzword that IT consultancies started throwing around to sell things that sensible admins had already been doing for decades, namely a centralised platform for the storing and management of logs.
After forever, the installation will complete and the OSSIM instance will boot, eventually presenting a console for logon. Log on for the first time using the root account and the password you created earlier:
By default, the OSSIM instance has a generic name of alienvault.alienvault and can only be reconfigured via the VM console. To change the name browse to 0 System Preferences > 1 Configure Hostname and enter the new hostname for the server:
Upload a copy of the Certificate, Private Key and CA Certificate (PEM Format) and click the Update Configuration button. This will run the reconfiguration task from earlier again in the background so the change may take a few minutes to apply. Be sure to set the Resolve IPs flag to Yes if you are allowing IP SANs in your certificate.
if you installed the ossim server correctly you must install the ossec hids on the agent os and configure it to act as agent.follow these steps if you dont already done so to setup the agent on a linux host.
I was trying to get AlienVault (OSSIM) to run on Nutanix, but I have hit a road block. I was able to get the install dialog to run after setting the boot to legacy bios. However, after install, It fails to boot.
I could accept a SIMS solution at a cost. However, after going through sales with LogRythim and splunk, I was frustrated because both of them incure log ingestion fees. We may have a good budget, but we are limited with our operational cost.
On this article i want to introduce you about one of Security Information and Event management (SIEM) product called OSSIM (open source security information and management) from AlienVaults. This product providing one unified platform with many of the essential security capabilities you need like:
After success download the ISO OSSIM software file next we will installed that software on VM workstation for testing puposes, i recommend minimum spec to install that OSSIM software on virtual machine for testing is like on the picture below, on production puposes you can calculated as your needed
17. After reconfigure success we can login to web administrator OSSIM from browser, access web admin with address , and we at the first will show form to add administrator account like on the picture below
20. Next OSSIM will do Auto Asset discovery on network segment, so if you want to used Auto Asset discovery to your all appliance or server, used segment IP address same with you Address management to your OSSIM system, But dont worry we can do add host as asset in manually
We can deploy on auto and manual, if we do auto deploy OSSIM will push agent to the system but we must have cridential admin to the host and ensure the connection is not blocking by firewall on network or firewall at the host, if not success we can try on the manual deploy
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to install and configure AlienVault OSSIM on VirtualBox. If you are a Blue Team security analyst, in one way or another you must have heard of or interact with not one, not two SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solutions. Well, AlienVault is one of the leading SIEM solutions. AlienVault OSSIM is the open source version of AlienVault SIEM. It comes enriched with features like event collection, normalization and correlation. What crosses your mind when we talk about event collection, normalization and correlation? Let us put this in black and white:
OSSIM provides a unified platform that bundles together security capabilities such as Asset discovery, Host Intrusion Detection, Network Intrusion Detection, Behavioral monitoring, Asset Discovery, Vulnerability Assessment, Log management. It also leverages the power of the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange (OTX), the open threat intelligence community delivers community-generated threat data, enables collaborative research, and automates the process of updating your security infrastructure with threat data from any source.Installing AlienVault OSSIM on VirtualBoxSystem RequirementsSince this is just a demonstration, the minimum system requirements are:
11. Configure the clock.12.Click continue to proceed with OSSIM installation.Once the Installation done, your AlienVault vm will reboot you should be able to see a screen similar to the one shown below when it starts up.
Navigate to System Preferences > Configure Network > Setup Management Network;In our case, we want to use the second interface, eth1, which is attached to an HostOnly interface type as our management interface.
Once the IP is set, restart networking service;service networking restartAccessing AlienVault OSSIM Web InterfaceYou can now access you AV on browser via your IP, e.g in our case;If you receive browser warnings of insecure connection, add the exceptions and proceed to AlienVault OSSIM web interface.
Create an admin account on the Welcome page by filling in all the fields.Click Start Using AlienVault. This takes you to login screen as shown below.AlienVault OSSIM DashboardLogin to your AlienVault SIEM and begin your Initial Setup. Once you are done with initial setup, you should the main dashboard of OSSIM server.
My installation fails on installing the base system and will not write a grup boot nor a lilo boot.
Syas configurling linux then starts updating from the gvm-11-feed
then both grub and lilo boot loaders fail to insatll
Hy!
i have followed all the steps as mentioned here and installed the alien vault but neither ping is successful nor opening in browser i have also disabled firewall but nothing happened. so what can i do now ?
I have a brand new HP Proliant DL360 G8 server with an HP SmartArray drive controller.
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"A new Smart Array driver called "hpsa" has been accepted into the main line linux kernel as of Dec 18, 2009, in linux-2.6.33-rc1. "
The OSSIM debian installer iso runs the 2.6.22 kernel. The kernel installed is 2.6.31.
I have no good documentation for compiling the hpsa driver into the OSSIM disk, and I do not believe an upgraded kernel past 2.6.31 are in plans for development of OSSIM any time soon.
I would like to be able to install OSSIM on this server, but compilation of the driver source has failed for me. Would anyone be able to offer any advice?
Another acceptable solution would be a way to install OSSIM on another distro, perhaps ubuntu 12.04 LTS or a more recent Debian. Or could I maybe remaster the OSSIM iso so it uses a more recent debian kernel?
For reference, here is the output of my attempt to compile the driver on OSSIM running in a VM: