Re: [ossec-list] ossec-agent buffer and/or cache configurations

2017-07-19 Thread Victor Fernandez
Hello Grant, OSSEC tracks logs from the file end when it starts. I mean, when OSSEC starts it opens every monitored file and jumps to the current file end. >From that moment on it will report all new data arriving to the log. If OSSEC detects that a log was rotated, it re-opens the file and track

[ossec-list] ossec-agent buffer and/or cache configurations

2017-07-19 Thread Grant Leonard
Two specific questions Are the amount of logs cached/tracked configurable? (Specifically for linux agents) when the agent cannot reach the ossec-server (yes I read the discussion from 2010, looking for updated thoughts here) How, specifically, does the agent handle being down/restarted? For