Great. Thanks for the starting point, Dan.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:16 PM, dan (ddp) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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