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This tool lets you easily access and view different Snare Central log files that is are available in your system, as well as share and email a copy of the log file in situations where you request assistance from your Snare Central support team, and get asked for specific log file to aid the investigation, e.g. Snare debug log file which contains generic information on what objectives were run, what scheduled tasks are currently implemented etc. or Snare service monitor ServiceMonitor.log file which is a collection of high priority process on Snare Central, in-case something cause the collection subsystem to fail (which will be restarted as soon as possible, and the server will attempt to collect as many useful statistics relating to memory usage, disk usage, and process information), in order to support debugging efforts by your Snare Central support team.

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which shows if any of the Snare Central core services are running or if any one is down and when it was last restarted.

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  • View Log File
    • Accessing and viewing Snare Central log files can now be easily done via clicking the drop-down menu and select from the list of log files available in your Snare Central.

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  • Share or Email a Copy of Log File
    • To share or email a copy of log file, first select the target log file from the drop-down menu.
    • Then input the email address of the recipient in the provided input box.
    • After that, Click the "SEND EMAIL" button to email the log file directly.


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The separate tool for display Snare Service Monitor log file is deprecated. It is now part of a more robust "Display the Snare Central Log Files" tools which will let you access, view and email a copy of not only Snare Monitor log file, but also other log files available in you Snare Central (see Display the Snare Central Log Files section in this page
  • Increasing the Snare Central debug level (see the section above on "Configuration Wizard" for more information), will significantly increase the amount of data that is written to log files.
  • To use the email feature, make sure that the "Email Setup" in Configuration Wizard are properly set (see the section above on "Configuration Wizard" for more information).

Display the Snare Service Monitor Log File

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File Integrity Check Administration

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The Snare Central allows modification of it's IP address, netmask, default gateway and DNS server settings, these values can be adjusted individually for each Ethernet cardNetwork Interface Card (NIC), providing flexibility in network management of your Snare Central.

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This objective provides summary information on current objective scheduling, target email addresses, and access controls. A link to each objective also enables you to modify the associated configuration settings.

Manage Plugins

The team at InterSect Alliance provide development services for customers, such as creating Snare Central objectives that meet specific organisational requirements.  We release these customisations as 'Snare Central Plugins', which can be installed using the normal 'Snare Central Update' capability, and can be turned on/off using the 'Manage Plugins' objective."

My Account

Your Snare Central password can be changed in this objective. Last login date/time information is also available.

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Threat Intelligence Configuration

Snare Server 8.0+ includes an updated collection infrastructure, which is capable of interfacing with the new Snare Advanced Threat Intelligence (SATI) module. Enabling the threat intelligence capability on the Snare Central Server will facilitate delivery of selected important events, up to an infrastructure which is capable of providing enhanced dashboards and log intelligence.

Delivery of data to a non-local elasticsearch instance is also supported. Currently all log types that Snare Central receives will be forwarded to the destination server.the list of log types are as follows:


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Enabling SATI delivery will display an overview of the currently enabled forwarding filters.

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Delivery of data to a non-local elasticsearch instance is also supported. The Snare Server can be configured to log to a local elastic instance (which is installed and available as part of version 8.0 of the Snare Central server), or can be configured to log to a remote elastic instance. If the remote elastic instance is protected by either X-Pack or ElasticShield from InterSect Alliance, HTTPS/TLS and authentication can be activated.

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