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IDS Tower

Open Source Surricata Gui.

Install

 wget https://download.idstower.com/packages/idstower_latest.deb
 sudo apt install gdebi
 sudo gdebi idstower_latest.deb
 <OR>
 # GET FREE LICENSE KEY from website, sign up. 
 sudo wget -qO - https://download.idstower.com/repos/apt/idstower.key | sudo apt-key add -
 echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.idstower.com/repos/apt stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/idstower.list
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt install mariadb-server ansible sshpass -y
 sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
 sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
 sudo systemctl status mariadb.service
 sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation
 sudo mariadb
 GRANT ALL ON *.* TO '**USERNAME**'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '**PASSWORD**' WITH GRANT OPTION;
 FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
 exit
 sudo apt install idstower -y
 sudo vim /opt/idstower/appsettings.json
 # set the LicenseKey key value
 # set the URL key value with the url or IP
 # set the MySQL Database settings 
 cd /opt/idstower/ 
 sudo ./IDSTower --init-database
 sudo ./IDSTower -a username
 sudo chown -R idstower:idstower /var/log/idstower/*
 sudo systemctl enable idstower.service
 sudo systemctl start idstower.service
 sudo systemctl status idstower.service

References

 https://idstower.com/docs/download.html
 https://www.idstower.com/docs/installation/install_ubuntu20.html