On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:57 AM, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> It provides a service, even if the display was not as effective as it could 
> be. I know my environment well enough to glean the valuable info from WUI. 
> With a cleaner interface, others in my organization will be able to leverage 
> this as well.
>
> I understand your feeling that all should help the cause, and agree. This 
> issue was obviously a higher priority for Ryan, and I thank him for working 
> on it.
>

Yes, I feel that everyone should contribute. But more importantly I
feel that if your business relies on a piece of software, taking care
of that software is important. Even if you're not sharing, it's hard
to believe that you'd put up with a broken tool without devoting a
little time to fix it.

> You could do the same.
>

I could, but I won't. I think the WUI is currently so bad that
encouraging its use does more harm than good. There are good
alternatives for viewing logs, why would I thank someone for pushing a
bad one?

> Scott Klauminzer
> Director of Information Technology & Security
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jun 25, 2012, at 7:11 AM, "dan (ddp)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 3:16 PM, [email protected]
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Ryan,
>>>
>>> Thank you for taking the time to address this! We rely on WUI, and don't 
>>> want to add DB in order to get a GUI view of the data, so thanks again.
>>>
>>
>> You rely on it, but couldn't be bothered to spend the short amount of
>> time it would take to fix this issue?
>>
>>> Scott Klauminzer
>>> Director of Information Technology & Security
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On Jun 23, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Ryan Schulze <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ok, finished playing around with the code and testing it with my logs and 
>>>> it should now work with OSSEC 2.6 again. If anyone runs into problems with 
>>>> the patch just poke me and I'll see if I can help out.
>>>>
>>>> Below are links to a patchfile and a tar.gz with the changed files. The 
>>>> important changes are in lib/os_lib_alerts.php the other files are more or 
>>>> less just cosmetic changes making the alerts a bit easier to read, and 
>>>> previous fixes already posted on this list.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.dopefish.de/files/ossec/ossec-wui-0.3_ossec_2.6.patch
>>>> http://www.dopefish.de/files/ossec/ossec-wui-0.3_ossec_2.6.patch.tgz
>>>>
>>>> List of all changes ( http://www.dopefish.de/archives/1154 )
>>>> - Works with the OSSEC 2.6 alert log file format
>>>> - Changed Rule ID Link to better work with the new OSSEC documentation wiki
>>>> - Added “user” field to alert output
>>>> - Widened the layout by a few pixels (to 1000px) and changed the CSS 
>>>> /alert layout to make the individual alerts better readable
>>>> - Moved some of the hardcoded formatting to CSS
>>>>
>>>> Ryan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 6/23/2012 9:56 AM, Mike Disley wrote:
>>>>> Ryan,
>>>>> You are awesome.  Those of us using this "dead" and "junk" tool will be 
>>>>> most appreciative.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Mike
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
>>>>> Behalf Of Ryan Schulze
>>>>> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 8:01 PM
>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>> Subject: Re: [ossec-list] Re: Error in message formating on OSSEC Wui
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/21/2012 2:47 PM, dan (ddp) wrote:
>>>>>>> I prefer a fix or solution. I'm not a developer and not intended to
>>>>>>> be...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hire someone who knows PHP.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> WUI is junk. No one seems to be able to get it working properly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Aww WUI isn't that bad, considering the poor thing has to parse logfiles 
>>>>> I find it does a pretty good job. Since OSSEC supports writing alerts to 
>>>>> a database, recoding WUI to (optionally) use the database backend for 
>>>>> pulling the alert data would be cool (any motivated PHP programmers out 
>>>>> there / on the list willing to do it?).
>>>>>
>>>>> As far as I can tell, the main problem with WUI and OSSEC 2.6 seems to be 
>>>>> that in 2.6 the lines "Src IP:" and "User:" are optional in the alert 
>>>>> logs (depending on if they have values or not). Should be easy enough to 
>>>>> fix, and by the end of the weekend I should have enough test data to see 
>>>>> if my little hotfix works or breaks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Will keep the thread updated with my progress :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>

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