Re: [ossec-list] Setting an alert for

2010-12-15 Thread loyd. darby
There is a paper describing how to do this with Nagios here: http://www.cs.umb.edu/~rouilj/sec/sec_paper_full.pdf .  Perhaps looking at what they do  can help. On 12/15/2010 10:44 AM, Christopher Moraes wrote: Hi, I have the exact same deployment

Re: [ossec-list] Setting an alert for

2010-12-15 Thread Christopher Moraes
Hi, I have the exact same deployment scenario (ossec running off a syslog-ng centralized log) and requirement. i.e. to identify if some servers/devices stop logging. Ossec does not support this by default, but I'm thinking of using the active-response feature to do this. What I *plan* to do is -

Re: [ossec-list] Setting an alert for

2010-12-15 Thread dan (ddp)
There should be an alert for when there are more messages than average, but nothing that I know of for not receiving any messages. On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:30 AM, NewRules wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using ossec as a log corellator. > For log centralization I'm using syslog-ng (for formatting features)

[ossec-list] Setting an alert for

2010-12-15 Thread NewRules
Hi, I'm using ossec as a log corellator. For log centralization I'm using syslog-ng (for formatting features), thus im'not using ossec agents for log collection. I wanna know if there is any option to set an alert when no logs or an unusual amount of log from a certain host is noticed. The probl