Centralized Backup & Restore of NetWitness Version 11.2+ (A Wrapper Script for NRT) NOTE: Updated to support 11.4.0.1Scenario You need to remotely backup your NetWitness hosts to a central location, to satisfy Disaster Recovery Requirements, perform a Tech Refresh, or to be prepared for RMA rep... 
Recover forgotten root password on CentOS 7 Change Note: The attached script for changing passwords across all Netwitness hosts, has been updated due to changes in salt version in 11.4. Synopsis Normally resetting the root password is a simple task if you̵... iDRAC 9 Configuration and Maintenance Guide Summary This guide was developed to consolidate most iDRAC related configuration and maintenance tasks into a simple easy to use document that could be downloaded for local use. Below is the list of topics cover... 
Recently Published Knowledge Base Articles for RSA NetWitness® Platform Date Range: Sunday, March 8th -- Saturday, March 14th Article Title Author Last Published Date 000037370 - Install/Upgrade fails in RSA NetWitness Platform because Resolv::ResolvError: no address for a particul... 
SNMP with Netwitness Appliances - SNMPv1,2 and 3 – Put it all together 11.x Updated for snmpv3: 01/14/2020 Scenario – You or your customer would like to link SNMP to the Netwitness for system monitoring purposes (Solarwinds, Nagios, etc.). Why SNMP? SNMP is an “agentless... 
RSA NetWitness® Platform Versions Click on a link below to visit the page for each product version. RSA NetWitness® Logs & Network | RSA NetWitness® Investigator | RSA NetWitness® Endpoint | RSA NetWitness® Orche... Parsing Suricata JSON logs with NW To successfully parse Suricata JSON logs via syslog collector we need to use LUA parser in NetWitness Log Decoder. Suricata LUA parser in this example is mapping only specific fields from JSON logs to metakeys. In ca... 
Recently Published Knowledge Base Articles for RSA NetWitness® Endpoint Date Range: Sunday, December 22nd -- Saturday, December 28th Article Title Author Last Published Date 000029763 - RSA NetWitness Endpoint RSA Live configuration error, Could not establish trust relationshi... NetWitness Services List Hey NetWitness Users, I recently received a pretty comprehensive listing of the various service names and locations of the NetWitness services! I wanted to ensure I got this info out to the ... 
ESA Notification script broken in version 10.6.6.1 If you use notification scripts as part of your ESA rules and recently migrated to version 10.6.6.1 you may have noticed that the output notification "script" is not working any more but no worries, the solution to th... 
Services on NW 11.x Admin Server Service Command Log File Location Purpose Admin Server service rsa-nw-admin-server restart /var/log/netwitness/admin-server/admin-server.log The NetWitness Suite Administration Server (Admin server) is... 
Refresh ESA Meta Key Schema Some customers have seen issues with their Meta Key References (meta key schema) after an upgrade of the ESA service. In the following screenshot, we see a clean version of the meta key schema -- however, in your envi... 
Consolidating your backups and maximizing NRT (NetWitness Recovery Tool) Changes are inevitable and no one knows when a restore is going to be needed. Today backup and restore processes are standard, required, and are part of nearly all basic deployment strategies. W... Creating and using an external repo in 11.x Scenario - Due to a slow or unstable WAN link between host(s) and the NW Admin Server (node-zero) host, installs and/or upgrades are failing to complete successfully. Solution – External Repo Create an extern... RSA NetWitness Working Groups RSA NetWitness Working Groups RSA NetWitness Working Groups provide a mechanism for collaboration by the product team with our customers. Working Groups are formed to address specific areas of the RS... 
Recently Published Knowledge Base Articles for RSA NetWitness® Orchestrator Date Range: Sunday, January 20th -- Saturday, January 26th Article Title Author Last Published Date 000036240 - Why do I get an "Unauthorized" message when attempting to access the RSA NetWitnes... Threat Detection Content Update - October 2018 Summary: Several changes have been made to the Threat Detection Content in Live. For added detection you need to deploy/download and subscribe to the content via Live, for retired content you'll need to manually remov... 
How to use non-root user to run root privilege commands in Netwitness server putty This document helps to allow non-root user to run root privilege commands without root password. 1. Login to Netwitness server putty as root user. 2. Create new user account using command useradd testin... 
