InTrust 11.6 - Deployment Guide

AMS Organization Servers

The local AMS Organization Servers group includes the accounts under which the organization’s InTrust servers run. To allow your organization’s InTrust servers to communicate with the server you are setting up, add its account to this group.

For example, if you have two InTrust servers installed (IT1 and IT2), to allow data communication between IT1 and IT2, you can take the following steps:

• Create a global domain group named, for example, All Org InTrust Servers
• Include the InTrust server accounts (both IT1 and IT2) in this group
• Add All Org InTrust Servers to the local groups AMS Organization Servers on both IT1 and IT2

Then, each time you add a new InTrust server to the organization and need to allow communication between all servers in the organization, you should do as follows:

• Include the new server’s account in the All Org InTrust Servers domain global group
• Add All Org InTrust Servers to the local AMS Organization Servers group on this new server

AMS Readers

The local AMS Readers group includes the accounts that are permitted to connect to InTrust servers using InTrust Manager in order to run tasks, view the configuration and so on. Include in this group all personnel who are supposed to work with InTrust Manager.

This group is granted the Log on as a batch job right on the InTrust server where the task or job is executed. When you create a task or a job with a specific account, this account is automatically granted the Log on as a batch job right and included in the AMS Readers group.

Members of this group automatically have read access to all objects available in InTrust Manager. This lets the group's members run existing jobs and tasks but not delete or change them. To let an account perform configuration, make the account an InTrust organization administrator, as described in InTrust Organization Administrators.

Configuring InTrust Sites

InTrust offers a number of predefined sites for Microsoft Windows Network and UNIX network; you can use them by selecting the Configuration | Sites node in InTrust Manager.

You can populate a site with the following objects:

• Whole network
• Domains
• Computers
• IP address ranges
• Computer lists (loaded from a text file)
• AD organizational units
• AD sites
• All domain controllers in domains
• All domain controllers in AD sites
• Script object

You can use filters to populate InTrust sites basing on:

• Computer roles
• OS versions
• Specific applications installed on computers, such as Microsoft IIS, (you can define your own applications based on registry values.)
• Registry keys and registry values present on target computers

For example, you want to create an InTrust site with all domain controllers of the domain. For that on the Site Objects step of the New Site Wizard you should click Add button and select All Domain Controllers in | Domain.

InTrust automatically discovers and enumerates site resources in case shortcuts to domains, Active Directory organizational units, Active Directory sites, or IP ranges are used. This means, if you add a new domain controller to a domain processed by InTrust, it will be automatically discovered and included in the corresponding site.

You can perform domain enumeration for the site either by using the Computer Browser service, or by getting the computer list from a domain controller.

• For InTrust gathering process, site objects will be enumerated each time a gathering session starts.
• For InTrust real-time monitoring, you can schedule enumeration using site properties.
• To display the computers included in the site at the moment, select the site and on the right pane, click Enumeration. On the enumeration pane, click Refresh.

Configuring Notification Groups and Recipients

InTrust uses the terms operator and recipient interchangeably. They define who or what is the addressee of notifications from InTrust jobs and real-time monitoring rules. Recipients can be grouped into notification groups for notifying multiple recipients at once.

To create a new recipient

1. In InTrust Manager click Configuration, select Notifications and right-click Recipients. Select New Operator. A new recipient named “New Operator” is created, and its Properties dialog box pops up.
2. In the dialog box, specify the following:
   • Name and optional description
   • Computer name to be used with the Net Send Notification Provider
   • Email address to be used with the Email Notification Provider

Dynamic Operators

Recipients are not necessarily fixed accounts. InTrust provides a way to make a single recipient represent appropriate accounts for multiple situations. These dynamic operators are designed for real-time monitoring purposes, and the account selected for notification depends on the event that triggers the real-time alert.

For example, if your rule uses "Dynamic Operator: Manager of Account in Who Field" as the notification recipient, then InTrust will analyze the contents of the Who field in the alert-triggering event, query Active Directory to find out the initiator's manager and send a message to this manager's address. There are several predefined recipients like this; their names start with "Dynamic Operator".

The dynamic recipient selection is script-based. The scripts that implement it are located under the Configuration | Advanced | Scripts node in InTrust Manager. The names of the predefined scripts for this purpose start with "Address Discovery". You can create your own scripts of this kind by making copies of the predefined scripts and modifying the copies to suit your needs.

To create a new dynamic operator

1. In InTrust Manager click Configuration, select Notifications and right-click Recipients. Select New Dynamic Operator. A new operator named “New Dynamic Operator” is created, and its Properties dialog box pops up.
2. In the dialog box, specify the following:
   • Name and optional description
   • Script to use for dynamic recipient selection; this is one of the script objects from the Configuration | Advanced | Scripts container.

Event Log Recipient

Event Log Recipient is a non-messaging type of notification recipient that uses the InTrust event log as the notification destination. If this recipient is specified for a real-time monitoring rule, then every time the rule is matched, InTrust generates an event about the rule match instead of sending a message to someone. The intended use for this feature is to integrate real-time monitoring and forwarding to SIEM systems, which customarily work with log data. This method provides a SIEM-compliant alternative to InTrust alerts.

There is only one event log recipient; you cannot delete it or create new ones.

Where the Notification Events End Up

Event Log Recipient puts all rule match events in the InTrust log. The destination log is located on the InTrust server that processes the site containing the computer where the rule match occurs. Therefore, to avoid losing any of these events, you should get them from all InTrust servers in the organization.

The events always have event ID 17408. For details about the event, see Events from InTrust Notification Engine.

The InTrust Log Becomes More Important

If you start using the InTrust log for rule match events, you turn it from an InTrust-specific resource into a significant security asset. Make sure you treat the log accordingly. For example, think twice before you clear the log and consider tracking user access to it.

Bulk Configuration of Event Log Recipient for Rules

If you rely heavily on logging rule match events in your workflow, then it can be tedious to specify Event Log Recipient for individual rules. Consider using the NotifyThroughEventLog.exe utility, which enables Event Log Recipient for all existing rules. You can download the utility from the link provided in Quest Support Knowledge Base article 312739.

Where to Enable Event Log Notification: Real-Time Monitoring Policies and Rules

This feature relies on the InTrust notification framework, so for logging of the rule match event to work, the following two settings need to be configured:

1. Enable the Event Log notification type for the rules that you want to generate match events.
2. Enable Event Log Recipient in the real-time monitoring policies that apply those rules to your sites.

Enabling just one or the other is not enough for the logging to begin. For details about real-time monitoring policies, see Understanding Real-Time Monitoring Policies.

Forwarding Rule Match Events with InTrust

If you use InTrust as your SIEM forwarding tool, see Example: Emulating InTrust Real-Time Alerts in SIEM for details.

If you use SIEM agents, refer to the documentation of your tool for information about integrating events with a specific event ID.