On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Michiel van Es <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have found out that we had an Apache webserver showing its has reached
> the MaxClients settings.
> We could not find the message back in our Splunk interface so I copy/paste
> the message into /var/ossec/bin/ossec-logtest and found out that it is being
> silenced by the apache_rules.xml rule.
> See pastebin: http://pastebin.com/58J8FitT
>
> We are now not seeing this message.
>
> Is there a reason why these kind of messages (since it is a grouped message)
> are set to level 0 by default?
>

The message grouping rules are there to help you build other, more
specific rules. There would be a lot of noise if we set these to a
higher level. My best advice would be to write more specific rules as
children to the grouping rules.

> Is there an easy way to overrule this setting in local_rules.xml to make
> sure these messages are logged?
>

If you really want to do it, use the overwrite option.

> Thanks for any help.
>
> Michiel
>
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