SWATCH CONFIGURATION STEPS:

To receives Snort alerts as E-mail, one can follow the following steps:
Swatch is the widely used open source tool to enable E-mail alerts in Snort. Swatch is a utility that monitors system log files, filters out
unwanted data and takes specified actions (i.e., sending email, executing a script, etc.) based upon what it finds in the log files. So here Swatch is
used to configure snort to send the alerts as E-mail.
NOTE:
Here, it is considered that snort have been already installed on the host, in which this is to be tested.
[a] Swatch installation:
Download the swatch package, from any of the mirror sites available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=68627
To install, simply issue the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
make realclean
Swatch installs just like a CPAN module. If you are not familiar with this process then you may want to read about it by issuing the command:
man ExtUtils::MakeMaker
Use the perldoc command if your man cannot find the document.
If you see messages like these:
Warning: prerequisite Date::Calc 0 not found at (eval 1) line 219.
Warning: prerequisite Date::Parse 0 not found at (eval 1) line 219.
Warning: prerequisite File::Tail 0 not found at (eval 1) line 219.
Warning: prerequisite Time::HiRes 1.12 not found at (eval 1) line 219.
Then you need to install the CPAN module(s) that it doesn't find, before you can use swatch.
You can find these modules at http://search.cpan.org/.
One must download following perl modules from the site search.cpan.org
1.Bit-Vector-6.3
2.Date-Calc-5.3
3.DateManip-5.42a
4.File-Tail-0.98
5.Time-HiRes-1.59
6.TimeDate-1.16
To install these perl modules,one can follow the same steps as said per Swatch,
They are,
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
make realclean
The Swatch binary will be installed at the /opt/perl/bin/ directory
Then create the swatch configuratiobn file.
cat /etc/swatchrc.txt
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# Swatch configuration file
#
#
# swatch -c /etc/swatchrc -t /var/log/snort/alert
#
### Snort Alerts
## Watch for entries containing the word 'Priority' in the snort alert file.
## Display it in green on the screen
## Mail alert to alerts@yourdomain.com with subject of the email
## being "----Snort IDS Alert----"
## Log in file /var/log/IDS-scans
watchfor /Priority/
echo green_h
mail addresses=ses\@krishna.kovaiteam.com,subject=--- Snort IDS Alert --exec echo $0 >> /var/log/IDS-scans
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[c] Start Snort in NIDS mode:
#./snort -c /snort/iexpress/snort/etc/snort.conf -l /var/log/snort.
[d] Start swatch:
cd /opt/perl/bin
#./swatch --config-file=/etc/swatchrc.txt
[e] Using Outlook Express:
configure the User's POP3 account and you can recieve the emails send by Swatch for each alerts based on the patter
matching the "watchfor".