Hi,

   I'm using Sec for event correlation and alerting and am finding 
myself trying to figure out how to suppress similar but not identical 
events.

I have used SingleWithSuppress to suppress an event but if the event 
text is slightly different I find that it does not really suppress it.

eg.

Jul  3 12:33:49 hostname sshd[4801]: Invalid user UserXYZ from x.x.x.x

will be suppressed but then

Jul  3 12:33:56 hostname sshd[4801]: Invalid user UserXYZ from x.x.x.x

will not be because the prefix timestamp has changed and made the log 
event look different, so the action will apply to this, even if it is 
within the suppression period of the first event of the same type.

I figure I can add them to a context to store them like that, which I've 
done, but I'd also like the ability to threshold or suppress for those 
contexts as well as I don't want that context to have too many entries 
of the same event.

Anybody got any ideas on this?

-h

-- 
Hari Sekhon


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