Connection Attempt Action

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Connection Attempt Action

The Connection Attempt action deals with the expression of event information pertaining to the connection attempt between two network entities as recorded by a given host. There are three possible results for this action: A for accepting the connection, D for silently dropping the connection and R for rejecting (or denying) the connection attempt.

Information	Level
Source - User Information	Tertiary
Source - Host Information	Primary
Source - Object Information	Tertiary
Source - Process Information	Tertiary
Source - Group Information	Tertiary
Dest - User Information	Secondary
Dest - Host Information	Primary
Dest - Object Information	Tertiary
Dest - Process Information	Tertiary
Dest - Group Information	Tertiary
Agent - Information	Primary
Agent - Host Information	Primary
Event Source - Host Information	Primary
Event Source - Information	Tertiary
Event - Information	Primary
Result - Information	Primary

The important information for this action is which host is attempting to connect to which host. The event information was expressed on which host and recorded by which agent on which host.

Result	event_result	event_severity
Accept	A	2
Drop	D	3
Reject	R	3