SAM For Mac

SAM is a near real-rime Snort alert monitor. SAM provides many ways to indicate that you may be experiencing an intrusion attempt on your network including audio/visual warnings, email warnings, etc.

SAM has many ways of grabbing your attention. The first is the rather large stop light in the top left corner of the screen. The second is by playing a specific sound when a particuliar threshold is reached. Currently we are using HAL quotes, but you are welcome to change them to anything you like. They are rather obviously labeled in the sam/wav directory.

The third way you can be notified is that an email can be sent to a specific person or group of persons. And lastly a plugin architecture is being planned where you can create your own creative way of alerting the appropriate people.

On *nix boxes you can easily run it by executing sam from the command line (again in the main directory), on Mac OS X by double clicking the sam.jar file and on Windows by double clicking on the sam.bat file in the top level of the directory.