It should. I'm not sure why you have to do that though. You could probably undo whatever changes you made to it to get it working again. A reinstall might be easiest though.
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:05 PM, rmarquez <rommelmarq...@gmail.com> wrote: > So removing and reinstalling ossec altogether on my second ossec > server that will communicate with my cloud servers should work? > > On Jan 9, 5:16 pm, "dan (ddp)" <ddp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:16 PM, rmarquez <rommelmarq...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > A little background because I am an ossec noob, >> >> > I'm trying to set up some ossec servers and agents at my job. I have >> > a main linux ossec server in my main work network with local boxes >> > (linux and windows) as clients and that's working fine. >> >> > I have some servers set up in the cloud where a couple of linux web >> > servers are agents to a server. Due to network security restrictions, >> > I can't just have the cloud servers go directly to my main ossec >> > server. Here's what I've tried so far: >> >> > I have a second linux server in my network that is running as a ossec >> > server only for the servers I have up in the cloud. I only have the >> > syslog forwarding set up to my main ossec server, but is it possible >> > for the cloud ossec server to have the agent running at the same time? >> >> The daemons that run on the agents should also be running on the >> manager. If they aren't, something went wrong with your installation.