Migrating from Snort 2 to Snort 3

Migrating from Snort 2 to Snort 3 requires you to switch the inspection engine of the Firewall Threat Defense device from Snort 2 to Snort 3.

Summary

Depending on your requirements, go through the stages listed in the workflow to complete the migration of your device from Snort 2 to Snort 3.

Workflow

These are the stages of migrating from Snort 2 to Snort 3:

Enable Snort 3 on the device.
- Enable Snort 3 on an individual device
- Enable Snort 3 on multiple devices
Convert Snort 2 custom rules to Snort 3.
- Convert all Snort 2 custom rules across all intrusion policies to Snort 3
- Convert Snort 2 custom rules of a single intrusion policy to Snort 3
Synchronize Snort 2 rules with Snort 3.
- Synchronize Snort 2 rules with Snort 3