Okay.  I look for the fix eventually.  Thanks for the info.

On Mar 5, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Daniel Cid wrote:

>
> Hey,
>
> This is a bug, so just ignore for now. You can set <stats> to 2 (or 0
> to completely disable) in your
> ossec.conf to avoid getting those. I will make a fix for it on the
> next snapshot...
>
> *the ossec-keepalive is an internal message between the agent/server
> to check if they are alive, so
> they shouldn't be count in the stats.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Daniel B. Cid
> dcid ( at ) ossec.net
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:02 PM, cryogen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I saw this in the alerts list this morning.  I've seen alerts like
>> this before, but the thing that caught my eye was the ossec-keepalive
>> line:
>>
>> 2009 Mar 05 08:35:51  Rule Id: 11  level: 8
>> Location: (agent) 10.0.0.2->ossec-keepalive
>> Excessive number of events (above normal).
>> The average number of logs between 8:00 and 9:00 is 308. We  
>> reached 559.
>>
>> Could someone enlighten me as to what ossec-keepalive is and why it's
>> creating a lot of events? Has anyone seen this before?
>>
>> --cryogen
>>

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