[ossec-list] Re: ossec and system updates: forcing immediate syscheck

2009-01-26 Thread Reggie Griffin
Daniel, Thank you for the response. Mostly I want to be able to set a specific time and/or time/day that will coincide with system updates and also have a regular scan schedule. The syscheck default is every two hours. 21600 OSSEC is a pretty amazing tool. We have been reviewing commercia

[ossec-list] Re: ossec and system updates: forcing immediate syscheck

2009-01-26 Thread Daniel Cid
Hi Reggie, Yes, you can set the scan time on the client side, but you can only have one per agent. I don't think it is very useful to scan more than once per day, but we can add support for this in the future. thanks, -- Daniel B. Cid dcid ( at ) ossec.net On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Reg

[ossec-list] Re: ossec and system updates: forcing immediate syscheck

2009-01-26 Thread Reggie Griffin
I have a few questions related to this thread. 1. I noticed that exists on the client side. Is it possible to set the there? 2. Is it possible to set multiple s? This is my 4th post to the list in the last few months. Hopefully this one gets a response. -Reggie Daniel Cid wrote: > Hi Er

[ossec-list] Re: ossec and system updates: forcing immediate syscheck

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel Cid
Hi Eric, I understand your pain in there :) What I have done in the past (which worked for me) was to do the following: 1-Configured syscheck to run at a determined interval instead of a frequency (in my case to run every day after 9pm): 21:00 no 2-After that, I created a sample local

[ossec-list] Re: ossec and system updates: forcing immediate syscheck

2008-11-18 Thread Peter M. Abraham
Greetings: Ditto... we do a lot of security patching for our customers who are tied to our ossec server, and it is not uncommon to get several hundred ossec alerts within minutes to as much as within 24 hours of the update which makes it harder to follow real ossec reports that matter. Thank you

[ossec-list] Re: ossec and system updates: forcing immediate syscheck

2008-11-14 Thread Mike Freemon
I am interested in this topic as well. In my case, I have a number of servers that I have yum automatically installing the latest updates. Of course, this triggers a flood of false positives. One idea I was thinking about was to develop a yum plugin that would calculate new checksums as yum