network.detectors
Class MultipleLoginAttemptsEventDetector

java.lang.Object
  network.detectors.EventDetector
      network.detectors.MultipleLoginAttemptsEventDetector

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable, java.io.Serializable

public class MultipleLoginAttemptsEventDetector

extends EventDetector

implements java.io.Serializable

Detects if a user has tried to login a specified number of times in a specified time period. These two parameters are passed in an input file

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class network.detectors.EventDetector

agentURN, cred, dbModule, eventIDGenerator, eventTable, host, localTriggeringEvents, remoteTriggeringEvents, reportTable

Constructor Summary

MultipleLoginAttemptsEventDetector(ConfigObject configObj)
Uses the default User file specified in AdminClient.

MultipleLoginAttemptsEventDetector(java.lang.String monitorUsersFile, ConfigObject configObj)
Uses the specified User file to instantiate this detector.

Method Summary

java.util.Vector	generateEvent(Event triggeredEvent) Detects if a user has exceeded his log in threshold This threshold is specified in the User configuration file
java.lang.String	getGeneratingEventClassName() Returns a String with the event that this class creates
static java.lang.String[]	getParamList() Returns array of strings containing all the parameters that can be used as input to modify this detector.
void	modifyDetector(java.lang.Object object) Allows modification of the detector as it is running
static void	parseMonitorUsersFile(java.lang.String monitorUsersFile, java.util.Vector monitorUsersLoginVector) Parses the given User configuration file.
static java.lang.Object[]	translateParameters(java.lang.String[] inputarray) This function takes an array of strings from GUI which contains input and converts them to array of objects and returns.

Methods inherited from class network.detectors.EventDetector

getAlarmLevel, getAlertLevel, getLocalTriggeringEventClassNames, getRemoteTriggeringEventClassNames, getSynchronizer, InitializeFields, modifyDetector, populatePatterns, printRunningThreads, run, setAgentURN, setAlarmLevel, setAlertLevel, setDB, setEventIDGenerator, setEventTable, setLocalTriggeringEvents, setRemoteTriggeringEvents, setReportTable, stopDetector, switchOffPrintRunningThreads

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MultipleLoginAttemptsEventDetector

public MultipleLoginAttemptsEventDetector(ConfigObject configObj)
                                   throws java.lang.Exception

Uses the default User file specified in AdminClient. The user file contains information regarding which users may login and the number of times they may login over a certain period of time

MultipleLoginAttemptsEventDetector

public MultipleLoginAttemptsEventDetector(java.lang.String monitorUsersFile,
                                          ConfigObject configObj)
                                   throws java.lang.Exception

Uses the specified User file to instantiate this detector. The user file contains information regarding which users may login and the number of times they may login over a certain period of time

Parameters:

monitorUsersFile - A path to a User file

Method Detail

getGeneratingEventClassName

public java.lang.String getGeneratingEventClassName()

Returns a String with the event that this class creates

Specified by:

getGeneratingEventClassName in class EventDetector

Returns:

A string with the event that this class creates

generateEvent

public java.util.Vector generateEvent(Event triggeredEvent)

Detects if a user has exceeded his log in threshold This threshold is specified in the User configuration file

Specified by:

generateEvent in class EventDetector

Parameters:

triggeredEvent - The event triggering this detector. Should be an instance of ConnectEvent

Returns:

A Vector of events. One MultipleLoginAttemptEvent per user who has exceeded their login threshold

parseMonitorUsersFile

public static void parseMonitorUsersFile(java.lang.String monitorUsersFile,
                                         java.util.Vector monitorUsersLoginVector)
                                  throws java.lang.Exception

Parses the given User configuration file.

Parameters:

monitorUsersFile - A path to the User configuration file

monitorUsersLoginVector - A Vector in which to store user login threshold information parsed from the input file

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

getParamList

public static java.lang.String[] getParamList()

Returns array of strings containing all the parameters that can be used as input to modify this detector. Each entry in the array corresponds to one parameter with structure " : ".

Returns:

parameterList, an array of Strings indicating parameters and their types

translateParameters

public static java.lang.Object[] translateParameters(java.lang.String[] inputarray)
                                              throws java.lang.Exception

This function takes an array of strings from GUI which contains input and converts them to array of objects and returns.

Parameters:

inputarray - an array of strings that contains user inputs.

Returns:

objArray an array of objects converted from the array of strings got from user.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

modifyDetector

public void modifyDetector(java.lang.Object object)

Allows modification of the detector as it is running

Parameters:

object - An object describing how the detector should be modified. Should be an instance of PatternObject