I see, I'll try same_location then as I believe that should serve my 
purpose as well. Thanks!

On Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 10:49:16 AM UTC-7, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:46 PM, dan (ddp) <ddp...@gmail.com <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Jake B. <cspit...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> >> Ok I'll do that. Also, not sure if you know but thought I'd ask 
> anyway...Is 
> >> there anyway to use the agents name in a rule or decoder? I have my 
> agents 
> >> named after the hostname so I was thinking that could potentially be 
> another 
> >> option. Don't see anything about it in the documentation however. 
> >> 
> > 
> > It's either hostname or location, but I can never remember which. 
> > 
> >> On Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 10:16:49 AM UTC-7, dan (ddpbsd) wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Jake B. <cspit...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> >>> > I'm not server if this is a problem with the OSSEC configuration or 
> the 
> >>> > host 
> >>> > itself, but there are some events where the logs or full message 
> only 
> >>> > have 
> >>> > some of the information I need. For example, this will be the full 
> >>> > message I 
> >>> > receive (2016-02-03 14:16:35 status installed some_package). The 
> email 
> >>> > alert 
> >>> > will give me the agent name it sent it from, but I am not receiving 
> the 
> >>> > hostname as well. It seems to be that most events do give the full 
> >>> > message, 
> >>> > but I'm starting to notice some that don't so wondering if I should 
> be 
> >>> > looking to fix this on the OSSEC side or making sure the system is 
> fully 
> >>> > logging or sending everything over. Thanks! 
> >>> > 
> >>> 
> >>> All of my test systems are down due to weather at the moment, but 
> >>> check the agent's logs to see if the hostname is included. 
> >>> If the hostname isn't included in the log, there's no way for OSSEC to 
> add 
> >>> it. 
> >>> 
>
> Here's an example from my dpkg.log: 
> 2017-03-04 13:24:22 status installed man-db:amd64 2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1 
>
> No hostname in the log message. 
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