On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Marc Esher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
>  Typical "Brand new to ossec" post here.
>
> I have a ossec manager server, with a minimally modified standard
> ossec.conf file. It monitors two Windows agents. I see in the agent
> log files that it is correctly picking up the IIS log files each day
> as they rotate.
>
> I see entries in the IIS log related to the ZmEu scanner (just like
> this one, which is successfully using ossec to punt these attempts:
> http://itscblog.tamu.edu/protecting-web-servers-with-ossec/).
>
> However, I was never notified of these scan attempts by ossec. I have
> all manner of information in the nightly log emails I receive, but
> nothing related to "Mutiple web server 400 error codes from same
> source ip"
>
> I'm assuming I have something misconfigured, but I don't know what
> that is.
>
> What would cause me not to be notified of these scan attempts?
>
> Thanks for guidance.
>
> Marc

I don't see log samples in that blog post. So you'll have to do some work.

Run a log message through ossec-logtest. See how it's parsed. See what
alert is triggered.

Run a bunch of log messages through ossec-logtest. See what alert is
triggered then.

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