Importing Snort rules for the Suricata Snort engine

This sample user scenario describes the steps for the following activities:

Selecting the Suricata Snort engine
Rebooting the Sensor
Importing Snort variables and rules from a file
Viewing the status of the imported Snort rules
Viewing the imported Snort variables
Pushing changes from the Manager to the Sensor

Note
You can configure the Snort engine at a global level but can override the setting per Sensor and select a different engine at a Sensor level. In this scenario, you will be configuring the Snort engine at a global level.