Troubleshooting CDR for AWS 🧐¢

OverviewΒΆ

In this lab we cover some common deployment issues seen in the field. Only 1 of these errors will be present in your lab setup.

TroubleshootingΒΆ

In the Vectra UI we currently only see β€œSetup failure” which doesn’t indicate the issue. In this case Vectra SEs can logon to Grafana to further troubleshoot the issue. Grafana access is only temporary until the errors are displayed in the Vectra UI.

SNS topic needs to be in the same regionΒΆ

  • From the UI copy the Source ID to your notes



SourceID





SourceID



  • Verify the Sensor Name and move your cursor over the red line to view the error



SourceID



In this example the SNS topic was created in a different region than the S3 bucket. To fix this a new SNS topic will need to be created in the correct region.

S3 bucket already has an event configurationΒΆ

  • From the UI copy the Source ID to your notes



SourceID





SourceID



  • Verify the Sensor Name and move your cursor over the red line to view the error



SourceID



In this example the S3 bucket already has an event configuration. This is common if the CloudTrail S3 bucket is pre existing and being used for other security tools. AWS only allows 1 notification of the same event type per bucket. To fix this reuse the existing SNS topic the bucket.

Gather the existing SNS topic name configured on the bucket

  • Go to the bucket properties

    • Click the bucket name



Bucket



  • Press the Properties



Properties



  • Scroll down to Event notifications

  • Copy the Destination ARN to your notes



SNS Topic



Fix the IAM policy to include the existing SNS ARN

  • Edit JSON and change to the existing ARN



EditJSON



  • Click Review Policy

  • Click Save Changes

  • Delete failed connection in DfAWS



Delete



  • Create a new connection gts-fix-initials

Duplicate Lookup KeyΒΆ

  • From the UI copy the Source ID to your notes



SourceID





SourceID



  • Verify the Sensor Name and move your cursor over the red line to view the error



SourceID



In this example the error is because Vectra is already ingesting data for this bucket.

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