[ossec-list] how to monitor the ossec agent status

2011-12-13 Thread Macus
Is there any way to monitor the ossec server and agent? Like to capture any strange logs in the ossec.log.

[ossec-list] Monitoring Command Output : is there a line number limitation

2011-12-13 Thread alsdks
Hello, I have set up a command to monitor file permissions in Windows (Since by default Ossec only supports POSIX ). The command for example is : full_command icacls c:\WINDOWS\system32\*.exe icacls Now the question: is there a limitation how many lines can OSSEC take and proces

[ossec-list] Re: rules 550,551,552 Decoded_as

2011-12-13 Thread alsdks
Hello Dan, Interestingly, grepping for 'syscheck_integrity_changed' returns different files depending platform , whether the source has been compiled or not, etc etc. Here is what I found in an un-compiled ossec source directory , under ossec-hids-2.6/src/analysisd/rules.h : #define ROOTCHECK

Re: [ossec-list] Repeated Offenders not triggering

2011-12-13 Thread Chris Warren
Sometimes I see the same host blocked every 600 seconds (the timeout value). I tried adding the repeated_offenders list to it's own block as the documentation suggested, but then I do not see: 2011/12/12 19:39:15 ossec-execd: INFO: Adding offenders timeout: 30 (for #1) 2011/12/12 19:39:15 ossec-

Re: [ossec-list] Repeated Offenders not triggering

2011-12-13 Thread dan (ddp)
Based on http://dcid.me/2011/02/blocking-repeated-offenders-with-ossec/ I think the repeated_offenders list should be in its own block. Example: firewall-drop all 7 600 30,60,120,1440 Again, I'm not sure and I don't know how easy this will be for me to test. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at

Re: [ossec-list] Repeated Offenders not triggering

2011-12-13 Thread dan (ddp)
How much time passes between the blocks? (I don't know much about repeated_offenders, so just gathering ideas.) On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Chris Warren wrote: > Hi, > I'm am trying out the option but it does not seem to be > triggering. > > Here is my active response config: >   >     >

Re: [ossec-list] Re: No diff shown in the alert email

2011-12-13 Thread dan (ddp)
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Macus wrote: > I have added the report_changes option like below. It seems work a > little bit. Both abc and def are linked to abc-v123 and def-v123 > respectively. Now, I can see some files were copied from /home/abc to / > var/ossec/queue/diff/local/home/abc , b

Re: [ossec-list] Re: rules 550,551,552 Decoded_as

2011-12-13 Thread dan (ddp)
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:23 AM, alsdks wrote: > > Hello Dan, > > hmmm those are binaries and I can't get anything out of them ... > They should be c source code files. > The thing is, while troubleshooting my other issue (Syscheck issue on > Windows : alerts not generated for registry and execu

Re: [ossec-list] Override Decoder from decoder.xml

2011-12-13 Thread dan (ddp)
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Chris Decker wrote: > As the subject suggests, is there a way to override a particular > decoder in decoder.xml?  I have a few tweaks I want to make and > obviously want to make sure that future upgrades to smoothly (so I > want to keep everything in local_decoder.

Re: [ossec-list] Unable to access ossec directory.

2011-12-13 Thread dan (ddp)
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, culley wrote: > Hi, > > I have read the docs correctly I have configured correctly but I keep > getting this message. > If you're getting that message, you've done something incorrectly. I'm not sure I should be offering help on this, since it might seem I am enc

[ossec-list] Unable to access ossec directory.

2011-12-13 Thread culley
Hi, I have read the docs correctly I have configured correctly but I keep getting this message. I am running OSSEC on CentOS 5.7. I have added the user apache to the ossec group. I have changed permission on the tmp folders, I have changed owner/group on the tmp folders. Basically I have tried e

[ossec-list] Re: rules 550,551,552 Decoded_as

2011-12-13 Thread alsdks
Hello Dan, hmmm those are binaries and I can't get anything out of them ... The thing is, while troubleshooting my other issue (Syscheck issue on Windows : alerts not generated for registry and executable checks : default OSSEC.conf) I have noticed the following behavior : While testing message

Re: [ossec-list] Repeated Offenders not triggering

2011-12-13 Thread jake . 22s
+1 for this problem I am running the latest release of ossec on FreeBSD 8.2 Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange -Original Message- From: Chris Warren Sender: ossec-list@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:08:30 To: Reply-To: ossec-list@googlegroups.com Subject: [ossec-list] Repea