Just complementing Meir's response...

If you have the agent installed, 10M would be more than enough (maybe
20M to keep some space for the ossec.log).

For the server/local, Meir's calculation is right, but he forgot that ossec by
default gzips all the logs after each day (reducing the log size by +-90%)...
It will all depends on the amount of alerts you have each day (you can
also remove old files easily, since the alerts are organized by date).

Hope it helps.

--
Daniel B. Cid
dcid ( at ) ossec.net

On 11/6/06, Meir Michanie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
if it could be possible to set ossec to work on a ring file, then a few megs
should be enough.
With the current functionality you need to calculate the number of events
per day that you will parse and log.
each event is 5 lines of text. my calculation is that every alert takes 300
bytes average, (log of 2MG / 7000 alerts)



On 11/3/06, Monteiro, Teresa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks a lot you for your quick feedback, Daniel and Meir.
>
> What would be the minimum amount of hard disk space you would advise ?
>
> Cheers,
> Teresa
>
>
> ________________________________
 From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:32 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [ossec-list] Re: OSSEC on embedded system ?
>
>
>
> the only problem is hdd space.
>
>
> On 11/1/06, Daniel Cid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Teresa,
> >
> > Ossec should work well on low-memory and low-cpu systems. I actually
> > have it running as a server (monitoring 4 agents) in a PII with only 64M
of
> > memory without any problems. Anything higher than that will work fine...
> >
> >
> > hope it helps.
> >
> > --
> > Daniel B. Cid
> > dcid ( at ) ossec.net
> >
> > On 10/31/06, Monteiro, Teresa <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > > I am trying to find out whether I can install and run OSSEC on an
embedded
> > > system. It is a PowerPC 400MHz, running Linux - also, what kind of
memory
> > > requirements are there ?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot!
> > > Cheers,
> > > Teresa
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>


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