Keywords in the IDS policy file

Most of the keywords in the IDS policy file are supported in this release, but a few of them are not supported.

Supported keywords

The IDS policy contains the following supported keywords:
  • ibm-policyIdsActionName
  • ibm-idsICMPRedirect
  • ibm-idsConditionAuxClass
  • ibm-idsConditionType
  • ibm-idsAttackType
  • ibm-idsLocalPortRange
  • ibm-idsRemotePortRange
  • ibm-idsProtocolRange
  • ibm-idsIPOptionRange
  • ibm-idsLocalHostIPAddress
  • ibm-idsRemoteHostIPAddress
  • ibm-idsActionAuxClass
  • ibm-idsActionType
  • ibm-idsStatInterval
  • ibm-idsMaxEventMessage
  • ibm-idsTRtcpTotalConnections
  • ibm-idsTRtcpPercentage
  • ibm-idsTRtcpLimitScope
  • ibm-idsTRudpQueueSize
  • ibm-idsFSInterval
  • ibm-idsFSThreshold
  • ibm-idsSSInterval
  • ibm-idsSSThreshold

The following keywords in the IDS policy file, while allowed, are ignored in this release.

ibm-idsMessageDest
Specifies to which queue the IDS-generated messages should go. (All messages result in audit records and are not sent to queues.)
ibm-idsNotification
Specifies whether the log file or the console gets notified. (All messages go to the audit journal only.)
ibm-idsLoggingLevel
Specifies a limit to the number of messages logged to a log file.
ibm-idsTypeActions
Specifies the type of action to take for a condition. (The only action taken is to create an audit record.)
ibm-idsSensitivity
Specifies the priority of the condition. (All conditions are treated as having equal priority.)
ibm-idsScanExclusion
Specifies an array of IP addresses and ports that should be exempt from statistical bookkeeping if a scan is detected. No IP addresses or ports are exempt from the statistics that are associated with a scan event.
Related tasks
Set up a new intrusion detection policy