As an admin (not to be confused with Org Admin), you can set up new accounts for users, edit user profiles, delete them, or just have a look at all the viewers' profiles. Organisation admins (Org Admin) are restricted to executing these actions exclusively within their own organisation’s users only.
***Email:** The user's e-mail address, this will be used as his/her login name and as an address to send all automated e-mails as well as e-mails sent by contacting the user as the reporter of an event.
***Set password:** Tick the box if you want to define a temporary user-password for the user. If you don't, you should use the action button 'reset password' in the 'List Users' view to generate one and send it by email to the user.
***Password:***This textbox is displayed only when 'Set password' is ticked.* A Temporary password for the user that he/she should change after the first login. Ensure that password pass the [MISP password policy](https://misp.gitbooks.io/misp-book/content/quick-start/#password-policy).
***Organisation:** A drop-down list enables you to choose an organisation for the user. To learn more about organisation, [click here](#organisation).
***Roles:** A drop-down list allows you to select a role-group that the user should belong to. Roles define user privileges attributed to the user. To learn more about roles, [click here](#managing-the-roles).
***Authkey:** This is assigned automatically and is the unique authentication key of said user (he/she will be able to reset this and receive a new key). It is used for exports and for connecting one server to another, but it requires the user to be assigned to a role that has auth permission enabled.
***NIDS SID:** Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) Signature ID (SID). Snort rules exported by the created user will have the offset defined in the user profile and each rule generated during the export will receive an incrementing SID starting with the user's offset. If no SID offset is specified a default, randomized value will be set.
***Sync user for:** Use this option for granting the user the right to synchronize the event between MISP server. This option is available for admin, Org Admin and Sync user role.
***Gpgkey:** The key used to encrypt e-mails sent through the system.
***Receive alerts when events are published:** This option will subscribe the new user to automatically generated e-mails whenever an event is published.
***Receive alerts from "contact reporter" requests:** This option will subscribe the new user to e-mails that are generated when another user tries to get in touch with an event's reporting organisation that matches that of the new user.
To list all current users of the system, just click on List Users under the administration menu to the left. A view will load containing a list of all users and the following columns of information:
***Autoalert:** Shows whether the user has subscribed to auto-alerts and is continuing to receive mass-emails regarding newly published events that he/she is eligible for.
***Contactalert:** Shows whether the user has the subscription to contact reporter e-mails directed at his/her organisation is turned on or off.
***Disabled:** Displays the user status. Enabled or disabled.
***Action Buttons:** There are 4 options available: reset the password, edit the user, delete the user or display a user's information. These options are also available on the left menu.
***Reset Password:** Use this action to reset a password. If you've created a new user without A password, tick the 'First time registration' checkbox to send a welcome message. Otherwise a reset password message will be sent.
Site admins can use the "Contact users" feature to send all or individual user an e-mail. Users that have a GnuPG key set will receive their e-mails encrypted. When clicking this button on the left, you'll be presented with a form that allows you to specify the type of the e-mail, who it should reach and what the content is using the following options:
***Action:** This defines the e-mail type, which can be a custom message or a password reset. Password resets automatically include a new temporary password at the bottom of the message and will automatically change the user's password accordingly.
***Recipient:** The recipient toggle lets you contact all your users, a single user (which creates a second drop-down list with all the e-mail addresses of the users) and potential future users (which opens up a text field for the e-mail address and a text area field for a GnuPG public key).
***Custom message checkbox:** This is available for password resets and for welcome messages. You can either write your own message (which will be appended with a temporary key and the signature), or let the system generate one automatically.
Keep in mind that all e-mails sent through this system, in addition to your own message, will be signed in the name of the instance's host organisation's support team, the e-mail will also include the e-mail address of the instance's support (if the contact field is set in the bootstrap file), and will include the instance's GnuPG signature for users that have a GnuPG key set (and thus are eligible for an encrypted e-mail).
:warning: GnuPG instance key is the GnuPG key used by the MISP instance and which is only used to sign notification. The GnuPG key used in the MISP instance must not be used anywhere else and should not be valuable.
To add a new organisation, click on the "Add Organisation" button in the administration menu to the left and fill out the following fields in the view that is loaded:
***Local organisation:** If the organisation should have access to this instance, tick the checkbox. If you would only like to add a known external organisation for inclusion in sharing groups, uncheck it.
***Organisation Identifier:** Name your organisation. If you want to add a picture, you should add a file on the webserver using the 'Server Settings menu'. Picture should have the same name. To learn more about server settings menu, [click here](#server-settings).
***Uuid:** Unique identifier. If you want to share organisation between MISP multi-instance, use the same Uuid.
***A brief description of the organisation:** A word for describing the organisation.
***Nationality:** A drop-down list for selecting the country of organisation.
To list all current organisations of the system, just click on List Organisations under the administration menu to the left. There are 3 tabs in this view to filter local organisations, remote organisations or both. The default view displays local organisations. For all views the following columns of information are available:
***Actions:** There are 3 options available: edit, delete or display an organisation's information. These options are also available on the left menu when you are on the display view.
***View Organisation:** Use this option to display information about the selected organisation. In this view, you can display the user belongs to this organisation and events published by organisation.
Merge Organisation menu is available only in the organisation view, under the left menu. Merging one organisation into another will transfer all users and data from one organisation to a different one. The organisation of which the users and data will be transferred is displayed on the left, the target organisation is displayed on the right.
Privileges are assigned to users by assigning them to rule groups. Rule groups use one of four options determining what they can do with events as well as four additional privilege elevation settings. These are the four options to edit the full options available in the Roles section: Read Only, Manage My Own Events, Manage Organisation Events, Manage & Publish Organisation Events. A short description is provided below:
***Perm Sync:** This setting enables the users of the role to be used as a synchronisation user. The authentication key of this user can be handed out to the administrator of a remote MISP instance to allow the synchronisation features to work.
***Perm Regexp Access:** Allows users who have this permission enabled to edit the regular expression table. Be careful when giving out this permission, incorrect regular expressions can be very harmful (infinite loops, loss of data, etc.).
When creating a new role, you will have to enter a name for the role to be created and set up permissions (as described above) using the drop-down menu and related check-boxes.
By clicking on the List Roles button, you can view a list of all currently registered roles and their enabled permissions. In addition, you can find buttons that allow you to edit and delete said roles. Keep in mind that you will need to first remove every member from a role before you can delete it.
***Extra Permissions flag:** Flag for each extra permissions: Admin, Site Admin, Sync Actions, Audit Actions, Auth key access, Regex Actions, Tagger, Tag Editor, Template Editor, Sharing Group Editor, Delegations Access.
MISP has a couple of administrative tools that help administrators keep their instance up to date and healthy. The list of these small tools can change rapidly with each new version, but they should be self-explanatory. Be sure to check this section after each upgrade to a new version, just in case there's a new upgrade script in there - though if this is the case it will be mentioned in the upgrade instructions.
Since version 2.3, MISP has a settings and diagnostics tool that allows site-admins to manage and diagnose their MISP installation. You can access this by navigating to Administration - Server settings & Maintenance.
The settings and diagnostics tool is split up into several aspects, all accessible via the tabs on top of the tool. For any unset or incorrectly set setting, or failed diagnostic a number next to the tab name will indicate the number and severity of the issues. If the number is written with a red font, it means that the issue is critical. First, let's look at the various tabs:
***Overview**: General overview of the current state of your MISP installation
***MISP settings**: Basic MISP settings. This includes the way MISP handles the default settings for distribution settings, whether background jobs are enabled, etc
***Diagnostics**: The diagnostics tool checks if all directories that MISP uses to store data are writeable by the apache user. Also, the tool checks whether the STIX libraries and GnuPG are working as intended.
Each of the setting pages is a table with each row representing a setting. Coloured rows indicate that the setting is incorrect / not set and the colour determines the severity (red = critical, yellow = recommended, green = optional). The columns are as follows:
***Priority**: The severity of the setting.
***Setting**: The setting name.
***Value**: The current value of the setting.
***Description**: A description of what the setting does.
The workers tab shows a list of the workers that MISP can use. You can restart workers using the "restart all workers" button. If the button doesn't work, make sure that the workers were started using the apache user. This can however only be done using the command line, refer to the INSTALL.txt documentation on how to let the workers automatically start on each boot.
***Worker Type**: The worker type is determined by the queue it monitors. MISP currently has 6 queues (cache, default, prio, email, update and a special _schdlr_ queue).
***Status**: Displays OK if the worker is running. If the _schdlr_ worker is the only one not running, make sure that you copy the config file into the cakeresque directory as described in the INSTALL.txt documentation.
It is possible to block certain events or organisations from ever being added to the system. Administrators can add, edit or delete blocklisted items. The appropriate pages are linked in the Administration menu.
Blocklisting an event prevents the event from being added on the instance. Blocklisting an existing event will not result in the event being removed. The event will still be editable as well. Blocklisting events functionality is enabled by default. If blocklisting events is enabled, deleted events will automatically be added to the event blocklist. Enabling/disabling event blocklisting can be done using the MISP settings view.
#### Blocklisting an event
The blocklist event screen can be accessed through the main administration menu. You can enter the UUID of one event or a list of event UUIDs (one per line). If the optional fields creating organisation, event info or comment are filled in, their values will be added for all added UUIDs.
The list of blocklisted events can be accessed through the main administration menu. You can delete a blocklist entry or access the edit screens for specific blocklisted events from here.
### Event block rules
Event block rules allow you to add a simple tag filter to block events from being added or synced.
An example of a rule can be found below:
{
"tags": ["tag1", "tag2"]
}
The rule will block:
- Syncing of events with "tag1" or "tag2"
- Direct adding of events with "tag1" or "tag2" in one go, for example using /events/add
The rule will not block:
- The adding of "tag1" or "tag2" to an existing event through non syncing actions, for example by adding it via the graphical user interface.
It is not possible to add more complex rules with boolean logic (NOT, AND).
### Organisation blocklist
Blocklisting an organisation prevents the creation of any event by the blocklisted organisation. It does not prevent a local user from the blocklisted organisation from logging in or viewing data.
When syncing, events created by blocklisted organisations will not be added to the instance. Updates will also not propagate. A user from a blocklisted organisation can still edit an event from the blocklisted organisation locally though. Blocklisting organisations functionality is enabled by default. Enabling/disabling organisation blocklisting can be done using the MISP settings view.
#### Blocklisting an organisation
The blocklist organisation screen can be accessed through the main administration menu. You can enter the UUID of one organisation or a list of organisations UUIDs (one per line). If the optional fields organisation name or comment are filled in, their values will be added for all added UUIDs.
The list of blocklisted organisations can be accessed through the main administration menu. You can delete a blocklist entry or access the edit screens for specific blocklisted organisations from here.
The system allows administrators to set up rules for regular expressions that will automatically alter newly entered or imported events (from GFI Sandbox).
They can be used for several things, such as unifying the capitalisation of file paths for more accurate event correlation or to automatically censor the usernames and use system path variable names (changing C:\Users\UserName\Appdata\Roaming\file.exe to %APPDATA%\file.exe).
The second use is blocking, if a regular expression is entered with a blank replacement, any event info or attribute value containing the expression will not be added. Please make sure the entered regexp expression follows the preg_replace pattern rules as described [here](http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php)
Administrators can add, edit or delete regular expression rules, these "expressions" are made up of a regex pattern that the system searches for and a replacement for the detected pattern.
The signature allowedlist view, accessible through the administration menu on the left, allows administrators to create and maintain a list of addresses that are allowlisted from ever being added to the NIDS signatures. Addresses listed here will be commented out when exporting the NIDS list.
When viewing the list of allowlisted addresses, the following data is shown: The ID of the allowlist entry (assigned automatically when a new address is added), the address itself that is being allowlisted and a set of controls allowing you to delete the entry or edit the address.
Correlation exclusions allow you to exclude certain values from the correlation engine. Values can be 1:1 matches or substring searches denoted with a leading or ending '%', or both.
Examples:
- https://www.google.com/% will match anything starting with https://www.google.com/
- %google.com% will match anything that contains google.com
After adding an exclusion, new values coming in will not correlate if they match any of the correlation exclusions. To remove existing correlations run the cleaner tool (see 'Clean up correlations' button in screenshot below).
Users with audit permissions are able to browse or search logs that MISP automatically appends each time certain actions are taken (actions that modify data or if a user logs in and out).
Listing all the log entries will display the following columns generated by the users of your organisation (or all organisations in the case of site admins):
***Id:** The automatically assigned ID number of the entry.
***Email:** The e-mail address of the user whose actions triggered the entry.
***Org:** The organisation of the above mentioned user.
***Created:** The date and time when the entry originated.
***Action:** The action's type. This can include: login/logout for users, add, edit, delete for events, attributes, users and servers.
***Title:** The title of an event always includes the target type (Event, User, Attribute, Server), the target's ID and the target's name (for example: e-mail address for users, event description for events).
Another way to browse the logs is to search it by filtering the results according to the following fields (the search is a sub-string search, the sub-string has to be an exact match for the entry in the field that is being searched for):
***Title:** There are several ways in which to use this field, since the title fields contain several bits of information and the search searches for any substrings contained within the field, it is possible to just search for the ID number of a logged event, the username / server's name / event's name / attributes name of the event target.
***Change:** With the help of this field, you can search for various specific changes or changes to certain variables (Ex.: using "Published" as the search term for and find all log entries where an event has been "Published", ip-src will find all attributes where a source IP address has been entered / edited, etc).
If enabled, MISP can delegate a lot of the time intensive tasks to the background workers. These will then be executed in sequence, allowing the users of the instance to keep using the system without a hiccup and without having to wait for the process to finish. It also allows for certain tasks to be scheduled and automated.
To start all of the workers needed by MISP go to your `/var/www/MISP/app/Console/worker` (assuming a standard installation path) and execute `start.sh`.
To interact with the workers, here is a list of useful commands. Go to your `/var/www/MISP/app/Console` (assuming a standard installation path) and execute one of the following commands as a parameter to `./cake CakeResque` (for example: `./cake CakeResque tail`):
***start**: Start a new worker.
***startscheduler**: Start a new scheduler worker.
***stop**: Stop a worker.
***pause**: Pause a worker.
***resume**: Resume a paused worker.
***cleanup**: Terminate the job that a worker is working on with immediate effect. You will be presented with a choice of workers to choose from when executing this command.
***restart**: Stop all Resque workers, and start a new one.
***clear**: Clear all jobs inside a queue
***reset**: Reset CakeResque internal worker's saved status
***stats**: Display some statistics about your workers including the count of successful and failed jobs.
***tail**: Tail the various (workers) log files that CakeResque creates, just choose the one from the list that you are interested in.
The other commands should not be required, instead of starting / stopping or restarting workers use the supplied start.sh (it stops all workers and starts them all up again). For further instructions on how to use the console commands for the workers, visit the [CakeResque list of commands](http://cakeresque.kamisama.me/commands#cleanup).
The "Jobs" menu item within the Administration menu allows site admins to get an overview of all of the current and past scheduled jobs. Admins can see the status of each job, and what the queued job is trying to do. If a job fails, it will try to set an error message here too. The following columns are shown in the jobs table:
***Id**: The job's ID (this is the ID of the job's metadata stored in the default datastore, not to be confused with the process ID stored in the redis database and used by the workers)
***Process**: The process's ID.
***Worker**: The name of the worker queue. There are 3+1 workers running if background jobs are enabled: default, cache, email, and a special Scheduler (this should never show up in the jobs table).
***Job Type**: The name of the queued job.
***Input**: Shows a basic input handled by the job - such as "Event:50" for a publish email alert job for event 50.
Apart from off-loading long-lasting jobs to the background workers, there is a second major benefit of enabling the background workers: Site-administrators can schedule recurring tasks for the jobs that generally take the longest to execute. At the moment this includes pushing / pulling other instances and generating a full export cache for every organisation and export type. MISP comes with these 3 tasks pre-defined, but further tasks are planned. The following fields make up the scheduled tasks table:
***Frequency (h)**: This number sets how often the job should be executed in hours. Setting this to 168 and picking the next execution on Sunday at 01:00 would execute the task every Sunday at 1 AM. Setting this value to 0 will make the task only run once on the scheduled date / time without rescheduling it afterwards.
***Scheduled Time**: The time (in 24h format) when the task should be executed the next time it runs (and all consecutive times if a multiple of 24 is chosen for frequency).
***Next Run**: The date on which the task should be executed.
***Description**: A brief description of the task.
To regulate the reception of e-mail from MISP it is possible to create filters. Each individual user account can apply such filter.
The filter can be configured by the user but also by the organization administrator.
After login goto Administration -> Set User Setting:
A new screen appears. Make sure the “Setting” drop down box shows “publish_alert_filter”:
The text field “Value” contains the filter, which needs to be provided in JSON format. Important JSON-objects which can be used here go by the name AND”, “OR” and “NOT”. These should be structured in a logical tree.
Choose your default sharing level to match your usage scenario for MISP. The setting is named *default_event_distribution* and the values can be:
* Your organisation only (default)
* This community only
* Connected communities
* All communities
You can also set a default distribution level for attributes contained in an event with *default_attribute_distribution*, and it has the same values as the default sharing level for events plus an additional one that allows attributes to inherit the sharing level of the event.
You can add a logo for your organisations in MISP by uploading them via the tab **Manage files** under the **Administration** menu &**Server Settings** sub-menu.
If you already made sure that you copied the config file under the cakeresque directory, it might be due to the FQDN of the server hosting the instance has changed. A way to fix this is to flush temporary data stored in redis. This can be done by logging in redis, for example when logging in with redis-cli, and issuing a flushall command.
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And / Or
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the [MISP Users mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/misp-users) and the [MISP developers mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/misp-devel).
A number of companies offer custom development, consulting, and support around MISP, please check [the support page of the MISP Project website](http://www.misp-project.org/#support).
The setting MISP.extended_alert_subject allows you to have an extended subject. One word of warning though. If you’re using encryption : the subject will not be encrypted. Be aware that you might leak some sensitive information this way. Below is an example how the two subject types look like. First with the option disabled, then with the option enabled.
***Apache access logs**: Rotating logs generated by apache, logging each request, by default (on Ubuntu) they are found in /var/log/apache2/misp.local\_access.log. The location can be changed via the apache conf file
***Apache error logs**: Rotating logs generated by apache, logging error messages, by default (on Ubuntu) they are found in /var/log/apache2/misp.local\_error.log. This error log file will generally not be used by MISP, however, if there is a PHP level error that prevents MISP from functionining you might have relevant entries here.
***MISP error log**: Generated by MISP, logging any exceptions that occur during usage. These can be found in /var/www/MISP/app/tmp/logs/error.log (assuming default installation path). If you see errors in here and are stuck with an issue [let us know via GitHub](https://github.com/MISP/MISP/issues/)!
***MISP debug log**: Generated by MISP, any debug messages and Notice level messages will be sent to this file. Generally less interesting, but can be helpful during debugging sessions. It should not be necessary to monitor this under normal usage. The file can be found in /var/www/MISP/app/tmp/logs/debug.log (assuming default installation path).
***MISP worker error log**: Generated by MISP background workers, logging any exceptions generated during a background job. It is the equivalent of the MISP error log for background jobs, so if scheduled tasks, synchronisation or e-mailing with the workers enabled are causing issues, this is the place to check. It can normally be found at /var/www/MISP/app/tmp/logs/resque-worker-error.log
***MISP worker logs**: Rotating logs generated by MISP background workers, logging any jobs executed by workers. This is part of the normal operation of background workers and doesn't have to be monitored, though it can help when debugging issues. Normally found at /var/www/MISP/app/tmp/logs/resque-[current date].log
***MISP scheduler error log**: Generated by MISP scheduler worker, logging any exceptions generated during the scheduling of a background job. It is the equivalent of the MISP error log for scheduled jobs. It can normally be found at /var/www/MISP/app/tmp/logs/resque-scheduler-error.log
***MISP scheduler logs**: Rotating logs generated by MISP scheduler worker, logging any schedulings of jobs to be executed by workers. This is part of the normal operation of the scheduler worker and doesn't have to be monitored, though it can help when debugging issues. Normally found at /var/www/MISP/app/tmp/logs/resque-scheduler-[current date].log
By default, MISP logs all failed login and authentication attempts in the built in Audit logs. To view any such failed attempts, simply log in as a site admin and navigate to Audit - List logs.
There are two types of entries that will be interesting if you are looking for failed authentication attempts, entries of action "auth\_fail" (for failed attempts to authenticate via the API key or the external authentication system) and login\_fail (for failed login attempts via the login page).
In order to enable IP logging for any logged request in MISP, navigate to Administration - Server settings - MISP settings and enable the MISP.log\_client\_ip setting.
It is also possible to enable full logging of API and external authentication requests using the MISP.log\_auth setting in the same location, but keep in mind that this is highly verbose and will log every request made. In addition to the information above, all accessed resource URLs are also logged.
By default the garbage collection of sessions is disabled in PHP. It is possible to enable it, but it's not recommended and as such MISP provides a manual way of clearing the sessions.
Navigate to the diagnostics screen of MISP (Administration - Server settings - Diagnostics) and near the bottom of the page there will be a counter showing the count of currently stored expired sessions. Simply purge them by clicking the applicable button when the number grows too large.
If you have an IPv6 enabled OS, but an older redis version that does not support IPv6 (<v2.8),MISPmightfailtoconnecttotheredisserverwhileredis-cliisworking.
The reason is that redis-cli is connecting to 127.0.0.1 directly, while the calls inside the CakeResque library used by MISP are done using "*localhost*" which resolves both to the IPv4 and IPv6 loopback addresses. For some reasons, the use of the IPv6 address is attempted first which fails.
You can confirm this by trying to connect to redis using **telnet localhost 6379**. If it fails, the error message should mention the IPv6 loopback address (::1).
If you have errors with fields or tables that you can see in the error.log or in the page (if you enabled _debug_ or _site_admin_debug_ settings), an easy fix to make most of them go away is to use the **clean cache** feature on the _server settings_ menu, _diagnostics_ tab.
Typically this is one of the places you would turn to even some background process might not complete as expected to get an indication on any issues related to user initiated Jobs.
For ease of use, you can filter the Jobs by 'All', 'Default', 'Email', 'Cache'
You can also purge the entries, either only by completed status or purge all.
This is not automated and needs to be done manually.
### Scheduled Tasks
Straight from the UI:
"""
Here you can schedule pre-defined tasks that will be executed every x hours. You can alter the date and time of the next scheduled execution and the frequency at which it will be repeated (expressed in hours). If you set the frequency to 0 then the task will not be repeated. To change and of the above mentioned settings just click on the appropriate field and hit update all when you are done editing the scheduled tasks.
Warning: Scheduled tasks come with a lot of caveats and little in regards of customisations / granularity. You can instead simply create cron jobs out of the console commands as described here: Automating certain console tasks
"""
The task scheduler is a sub-par component to enable minimal functionality in terms of automating certain MISP tasks.
If you have a dedicated and concious MISP Site Admin she can keep an eye on the Scheduler to make sure everything runs smoothly.
For better performance please use a real scheduler like your systems' crontab.
If you would like to automate tasks such as caching feeds or pulling from server instances, you can do it using the following command line tools. Simply execute the given commands via the command line / create cron jobs easily out of them.
