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Chapter 5     Using Snort with MySQL

  You can also install the MySQL server on a different machine and configure

Snort to log to that database, as shown in Figure 5 2.

  You can have multiple Snort sensors to log to a centralized database server

running MySQL server, as shown in Figure 5 3.       

Figure 5 1 A single computer running Snort and MySQL database server.

Figure 5 2 A computer running Snort logging to a separate MySQL database server.