Complete Guide for Installing Snort and Snort Report Now Available

2010-05-12, Coppell, Texas USA

Symmetrix Technologies is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a step-by-step guide for installing Sourcefire's Snort intrusion detection and prevention system alongside Symmetrix Technologies' Snort Report log analysis tool on Ubuntu Linux.

This document describes the exact procedure for implementing a basic Snort 2.8.6 system along with Snort Report 1.3.1 on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS.

The complete and direct download is available at http://www.symmetrixtech.com/articles/004-snortinstallguide286.pdf

UPDATE 2010-10-08:
A new setup guide for Snort 2.9 is available at http://www.symmetrixtech.com/articles/008-snortinstallguide290.html

Updates:
2010-05-14 - 1.01 - Add a missing package and clarify a file path.
2010-07-05 - 1.02 - Add path to Snort Report console

About Symmetrix Technologies

Founded in 2003, Symmetrix Technologies is a leading network integrator in the United States concentrating on network monitoring and security. It is also the developer of Snort Report - a log analysis tool for the Snort intrusion detection and prevention system.