We'll use SecurityOnion
Minimum requirements as of version 2.4 are :

• 4 Cores
• 16GB RAM
• 200GB HDD

On top of this you'll need: 2 NICs (1 for management, 1 for the monitoring)
You ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SNIFF/MONITOR network you don't own or for which you are not authorized:!:
That being said let's jump on it.

boot on the ISO

• Operating system device: sdb. (in my case 256GB)
• same device for nsm ? NO
• NSM storage: sda (in my case 2TB)
• continue: yes it will erase EVERYTHING
• username
• pass

~5 minutes later if it's not frozen for whatever reason, reboot by pressing [enter]

• log in
• install
• STANDALONE (in my case)
• Elastic search AGREE
• node install: standard
• name: soc
• description [enter] (in my case)
• management interface: eno1
• IP address: static (recommended! or you can force your DHCP always to give you the same IP….)
• IP: 192.168.1.XX/24
• gateway: 192.168.1.YY
• DNS: 192.168.1.ZZ,192.168.1.WW
• domain: fortier-family.com (in my case)
• connection method: Direct (in my case, no proxy)
• default Docker IP: yes
• NIC monitoring interface: enp1s0 (in my case) [space] to select
• Email address for admin account
• pass: 12345678
• web access method: OTHER
• type in the FQDN
• allow access through web interface?: …. YES (!!)
• IP range: 192.168.1.0/24
• Telemetry Yes/no
• summary

The installer is a piece of shit… you cannot go back, it freezes, and once at first reboot mgmt NIC was dead !! I had to reinstall it completely.

if the network is not working at the end, just log in, then:

 sudo SecurityOnion/so-setup-network

Good luck

It's really up to you, personally, I have a Dell Optiplex 7010 (16GB RAM i5-3470 256GB SSD) I tried using Security Onion under VMWare ESXi 7 but couldn't make it see all devices of my home network. So I bought an 8-port SWITCH with port mirroring (TP-link TL-SG108E)and used the Optiplex as standalone physical machine. I installed using sda as system disk and sdb (2TB SSD) for NSM data. I chose to run all services available and installed Security Onion as “STANDALONE” set the management NIC with a static IP

Once installed and setup you can access the web interface using https://static_IP_of_Security_Onion

16GB is a bit tight …

dd if=/dev/zero of=/nsm/16GB.swap count=16384 bs=1MiB
chmod 600 /nsm/16GB.swap
mkswap /nsm/16GB.swap
swapon /nsm/16GB.swap
echo "/nsm/16GB.swap  swap swap sw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

 dnf install -y epel-release
dnf update
dnf install -y htop toilet

timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Zurich
timedatectl
vi /etc/chrony.conf

# NTP server list
#server 0.pool.ntp.org iburst
#server 1.pool.ntp.org iburst
server ntp.fortier-family.com
 
# Config options
driftfile /var/lib/chrony/drift
makestep 1.0 3
rtcsync
logdir /var/log/chrony

systemctl restart chronyd
chronyc sources

Like for the rest of my local webservice I use a A record in my DNS then use certbot

sudo certbot -d yoursoc.yourdomain.tld --server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory --manual --preferred-challenges dns certonly

• /etc/salt/minion.d/signing_policies.conf

 grep ssl -A10 /etc/salt/minion.d/signing_policies.conf

cd /etc/pki
cp ca.key ca.key.org
cp ca.crt ca.crt.org
cp managerssl.crt managerssl.crt.org
cp managerssl.key managerssl.key.org

sudo su
cd /etc/letsencrypt/live/soc.fortier-family.com/
scp fullchain.pem privkey.pem warnaud@soc.fortier-family.com:~/.
ssh soc.fortier-family.com
cd /etc/pki
cp /home/warnaud/fullchain.pem managerssl.crt
cp: overwrite ‘managerssl.crt’? y
cp /home/warnaud/privkey.pem managerssl.key
cp: overwrite ‘managerssl.key’? y
so-nginx-restart

Download from https://soc.fqdn.tld/#/downloads
Then

• https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/wazuh.html
• https://documentation.wazuh.com/3.13/user-manual/registering/command-line-registration.html

• https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/managing-alerts.html#suppressions

 grep  2033078 /opt/so/rules/nids/all.rules

where 2033078 is the rule.uuid in “Alerts”

 vi /opt/so/saltstack/local/pillar/minions/soc_standalone.sls

...
idstools:
  config:
    ruleset: 'ETOPEN'
    oinkcode: ''
    urls:
  sids:
    enabled:
    disabled:
        - 2033078
    modify:

as always it's NOT WORKING and SCREW UP TOTALLY ALL SO containers (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

• https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/index.html
• https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/ref/configuration/minion.html
• https://z3r0th.medium.com/setting-up-security-onion-at-home-717340816b4e
• https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion/issues/1766
• https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/wazuh.html
• https://documentation.wazuh.com/3.13/user-manual/registering/command-line-registration.html
• https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion/discussions/5117 | SSL certs
• https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/url-base.html | change IP to FQDN for web manager
• https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/security-onion/wiki/Cheat-Sheet
• https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/installation.html