I've been trying and searching the manual and the forums, and I'm sure
there's a simple solution, but I haven't been able to figure it out yet..

I have an agent machine sending log msgs to a server machine via ossec's
'secure' connection.  Ossec reports alerts based on those  (working great).

The agent machine also remote-syslog's those messages to the server, which
are received by syslogd and saved in /var/log/*.log on the server (because I
want them saved for posterity).  So now I get duplicate versions of every
log-based alert, which is expected, since the log msgs come across the
secure connection, and they also show up in the local log files, which ossec
is also inspecting.

But I don't want duplicate alerts.  How can I tell ossec to not consider all
log messages in the local log files that come from the agent, ie, that have
agent_hostname as hostname?  I've made various attempts to add elements to
local_rules.xml, but no luck so far.

-Eric

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