Yeah we built custom binary RPM's, try the newer atomic ones, I hear good
things about those.  We had a tight deadline to meet and had to improvise.
 When I get a chance I intend to go back and redo our process with the
atomic RPM's.

Zate


On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:51 AM, dan (ddp) <ddp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Brett Y <cgka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Zate,
> > Those RPMs don't work, and cause lots of frustration.
> >
>
> Zate made his own RPMs, in a different way than most had been made
> before. Also, I think he and Nate solved the agent auth issues. Newer
> atomic rpms should work (I haven't tested so YMMV).
>
> >
> > On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 7:17:55 AM UTC-7, Zate wrote:
> >>
> >> If you have one OSSEC server, this is actually pretty easy.
> >>
> >> Do the Binary Install - this creates all the binaries on one machine,
> and
> >> then lets you take that tar.gz to any other machine, run install and it
> lays
> >> down the already built binaries.
> >>
> >> The second part is use the etc/preloaded-vars.conf that is part of that
> >> bundle and pre-fill in things like the server, the type of install etc
> etc.
> >>  You can also select for it to be "silent" and just use the stuff in the
> >> preloaded-vars.conf to answer all the questions.
> >>
> >> We took this a step further and created a RPM that packages the prebuilt
> >> binaries from a manual install and recreates the install on a new
> machine
> >> and connects the agent automatically.
> >>
> >> For just a 100 machines, a simple binary install and a quick bash script
> >> to set it up should work.
> >>
> >> Zate
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:29 AM, dan (ddp) <ddp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The install.sh and InstallAgent.sh script have most of this
> information.
> >>>
> >>> Did you create all of the directories? Did you make sure permissions
> >>> were correct? Did you create the OSSEC users? Did you make sure
> >>> ownership/groups were correct?
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Lucas Kauffman <cloud10...@gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > I have about 100 machines running the same OS.
> >>> >
> >>> > I want to install ossec agents on all machines but I don't feel like
> >>> > having
> >>> > to press enter on every machine to install it. I read in the book
> that
> >>> > you
> >>> > can normally copy the binaries easily, so I compiled ossec on one
> >>> > machine
> >>> > and want to copy the binary to all my other machines (pushing the
> >>> > correct
> >>> > client.keys file already works).
> >>> >
> >>> > At the moment I seem to be at an impasse because the sockets for
> ossec
> >>> > are
> >>> > not being created, I keep getting this error after I copy the binary:
> >>> >
> >>> > 2012/06/13 13:21:38 ossec-syscheckd(1210): ERROR: Queue
> >>> > '/var/ossec/queue/ossec/queue' not accessible: 'Queue not found'.
> >>> > 2012/06/13 13:21:53 ossec-rootcheck(1210): ERROR: Queue
> >>> > '/var/ossec/queue/ossec/queue' not accessible: 'No such file or
> >>> > directory'.
> >>> > 2012/06/13 13:22:04 ossec-syscheckd(1210): ERROR: Queue
> >>> > '/var/ossec/queue/ossec/queue' not accessible: 'Queue not found'.
> >>> > 2012/06/13 13:22:19 ossec-rootcheck(1210): ERROR: Queue
> >>> > '/var/ossec/queue/ossec/queue' not accessible: 'No such file or
> >>> > directory'.
> >>> > 2012/06/13 13:22:35 ossec-syscheckd(1210): ERROR: Queue
> >>> > '/var/ossec/queue/ossec/queue' not accessible: 'Queue not found'.
> >>> > 2012/06/13 13:22:50 ossec-rootcheck(1211): ERROR: Unable to access
> >>> > queue:
> >>> > '/var/ossec/queue/ossec/queue'. Giving up..
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > So I guess when compiling OSSEC, the compile script creates links to
> or
> >>> > from
> >>> > sockets and when I copy the binary it is not possible to find these.
> >>> > Does
> >>> > anyone know how I can manually make these (so I can just add that to
> my
> >>> > distribution script)? Are there maybe any OSSEC repositories for
> ubuntu
> >>> > I'm
> >>> > not aware of?
> >>> >
> >>> > Cheers,
> >>> > Lucas Kauffman
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>
> >>
> >
>

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