Hello ossec gurus,

I was wondering if it is possible to force the execution of a
full-capacity re-scan of the files' checksum DB.

Basically, when preforming system maintenance on a per-server basis,
I'd like to be able to:
1) turn off ossec and disable alerting for this box in ossec.conf
2) update the box with our current application version (modifying
monitored files and, thus, altering their checksums)
3) issue a fast-as-possible rescan of the files on the server
(generate checksums of the new files), and
4) restart ossec with alerting re-enabled

Ideally, the only alerts that I will receive after this process are:
"ossec agent disconnected" and "ossec agent connected"

The problem with this is: normally, ossec-syscheckd would be niced
*way* down so that #3 above would take an unreasonably high amount of
time. Is there a way to make it a #1 priority?


Cheers,
Michael Altfield

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