ISA 2000 - Monitoring and reporting

ISA Server 2000 May 24, 2025

Intrusion detection

Intrusion detection settings
Intrusion detection settings
  • Windows out-of-band - Win 96/98/NT packet marked as urgent, pointer out of packet
  • Land - spoofing, tcp 3 way handshake
  • Ping of death - large number of pings
  • IP half scan - port scan but doesn’t fully establish a session to avoid detection
  • UDP bomb - like a ping on well known portsPort scan - search for all open ports
DNS intrusion detection settings
DNS intrusion detection settings
  • DNS host name overflow - request for dns name too long
  • DNS length overflow - entry longer that 32 bits
  • DNS zone transfer - internal dns server sends full lists of server names and IP addresses

Monitoring Configuration

Alerts

ISA Alerts
ISA Alerts

Alerts = Events, Can create custom alerts

Alert General
Alert General
Alert Events
Alert Events
Alert Actions
Alert Actions

By default report to Windows application event log

Logs

ISA Logs
ISA Logs
  • Packet filters - all packets going though ISA
  • Firewall service - all firewall client
  • Web proxy and caching
Log storage settings
Log storage settings

SQL scripts to create table are on the install cd

Log fields
Log fields
  • By default only logs denied packets
  • By default stored in the ISALogs folder

Report

Log file summaries needed to create reports, disabled by defaultCreated at 12:30 at night

Report job settings
Report job settings

 

ISA Reports
ISA Reports

Summary Report

Summary Report
Summary Report

Security Report

Security Report
Security Report

Performance Monitor

Performance Monitor
Performance Monitor

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