Prerequisites for Migrating from Snort 2 to Snort 3

The following are the recommended prerequisites that you must consider before migrating your device from Snort 2 to Snort 3.

• Have a working knowledge of Snort. To learn about the Snort 3 architecture, see Snort 3 Adoption.

• Back up your management center. See Backup the Management Center.

• Back up your intrusion policy. See Exporting Configurations.

• Clone your intrusion policy. To do this, you can use an existing policy as the base policy to create a copy of your intrusion policy. In the Intrusion Policies page, click Create Policy and choose an existing intrusion policy from the Base Policy dropdown list.