[Oisf-users] Flowbit question

Cooper F. Nelson cnelson at ucsd.edu
Mon Jan 11 21:43:06 UTC 2016


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If you remove the 'flowbits: noalert' directive from a rule it will
generate an alert when the flowbit is set.

- -Coop

On 1/11/2016 1:14 PM, Erich Lerch wrote:
> Sometimes it would be helpful if for a given rule which triggered an
> alert after evaluating a flowbit, it was possible to know which other
> rule was setting this very flowbit.
> 
> In ET rulesets, there might be dozens of possible candidates setting a
> flowbit, so finding the right candidate is not feasible.
> Is there a possiblity to "automagically" find it? Does Suri track this
> information internally (so it might be logged somehow)?
> 
> Cheers,
> erich
> 
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Cooper Nelson
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