Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion ? reverse-engineered prompt
Reverse engineered prompt
Build me a clean, working setup for Security Onion that a normal admin could use on a fresh machine.
I want the install and first time setup to be smooth, with clear prompts, sensible defaults, and reliable checks that the system is ready for threat hunting, network monitoring, and log management. Make sure the main Security Onion console, alerting, dashboards, hunting, packet capture, and detection pieces all come up correctly, and that the setup experience guides the user through the basics without making them hunt through docs.
If anything in the current docs or scripts is outdated, fix it. Add or improve status messages, validation, and error handling so failures are easy to understand. Keep the existing Security Onion flow and tools in mind, and look up current docs online if you need to. I’d also like the setup to feel polished enough that someone installing it for the first time can get to a usable security monitoring system without confusion.
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