Has there been any further thought on this issue?  I am in the same boat.

On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 12:43:56 AM UTC-5, Vilius wrote:
>
> Jesus,
>
> when question is should I send alert into the void or into archive, there 
> are cases when archiving is a better option.
>
> Vilius
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Jesus Linares <je...@wazuh.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Vilius, OSSEC is designed to receive alerts from the present and not old 
>> logs. If you send to OSSEC old logs, the alert timestamp will be the 
>> timestamp when the alert was triggered (and not the timestamp when the log 
>> was generated). I was talking about a related issue here 
>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wazuh/eSqkmBfSSIk>.
>>
>> Nick, usually it is not a good idea to make your Manager accessible from 
>> the public Internet. If your server has a security breach, anyone could 
>> access to confidential information of your agents. It could even control 
>> them if they have the active response enabled. If you are sure, follow some 
>> security hardening guide for your host and configure your firewall 
>> properly. I would not recommend to make public a OSSEC Manager.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 6:47:14 PM UTC+2, Nick Giannoulis wrote:
>>>
>>> Didnt know you can use "ANY" , thats great thanks a lot. If my ossec 
>>> server is accessible externally any alerts from the agents should still 
>>> reach my server right ? ( if the agents are connected to the net and 
>>> nothing blocking )
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:51:37 UTC+1, Jesus Linares wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> as Eero said, you can register your agents with ANY instead of the IP.
>>>>
>>>> anyway, remember that the agents send the alerts in real time. *Alerts are 
>>>> not stored to be sent later*. So, you are not going to receive the 
>>>> alerts generated in your agents when they were not connected to the 
>>>> Manager 
>>>> network.
>>>>
>>>> Regards.
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 11:23:56 AM UTC+2, Eero Volotinen 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> You can use ip address any while creating agent keys for roaming 
>>>>> devices.
>>>>>
>>>>> Eero
>>>>>
>>>>> 2016-09-13 10:58 GMT+03:00 Nick Giannoulis <ni...@nea-idea.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>>  I have an OSSEC server running perfectly monitoring all my servers. 
>>>>>> I want to expand it to start monitoring my 'normal' clients ( win7-10 
>>>>>> laptops and workstations ) . Some of these laptops will be outside of 
>>>>>> the 
>>>>>> network most of the time. Considering that ossec agents shouldnt have 
>>>>>> the 
>>>>>> same IP is there any work around for my situation ? i imagine at some 
>>>>>> point 
>>>>>> or another a few laptops will have the same IP while they are connected 
>>>>>> to 
>>>>>> various other networks. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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