Bernard, Check in /var/ossec/queue/agent-info and see if the agents you remove show up there. If so delete then and restart ossec and apache and see if they go away. I had the same problem a two or three months and found that the delete agent left some information in another directory that the ossec-wui was pulling information from.
Thanks Dennis Carter Business Technology Services 727-464-4527 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bernard Golden Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 11:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ossec-list] Ossec Webui Displaying Removed Agents I have restarted both ossec and apache and ossec-wui continues to display agents that have been removed (are no longer in the client.keys file). Bernard Golden Chief Executive Officer, HyperStratus www.hyperstratus.com Author, "Virtualization for Dummies," Dummies Press, 2007 (T) 650 585 5309 (C) 650 400 3204 (F) 650 591 3805 Follow me on twitter: bernardgolden On Jan 5, 2010, at 6:31 AM, Carter, Dennis A wrote: > > > Bernard, > > Did you try restarting the httpd service? Try restarting the httpd > service and see if that removed the agents that have been removed. > > thanks > Dennis Carter > Business Technology Services > 727-464-4527 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Bernard Golden > Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 1:55 PM > To: ossec-list > Subject: [ossec-list] Ossec Webui Displaying Removed Agents > > I am seeing OSSEC WUI displaying agents that have been removed from > the OSSEC Manager as "Inactive." Is there a way to get removed agents > off of the OSSEC WUI display? > > Here is the scenario: > > A server that has OSSEC Agent installed and communicating with OSSEC > Manager is being shutdown. This is a very dynamic environment, and the > server running the OSSEC agent will not be reinstantiated with the > same IP address. Therefore, when the server is reinstantiated, it re- > registers with the OSSEC Manager and successfully is listed with the > new IP address, new ID, etc. > > As part of the shutdown process, the ossec-batch-manager.pl on the > Manager is called to remove the OSSEC Agent listing from the Manager. > This is accomplished successfully, with the Agent no longer listed in > the Manager's client.keys file. > > Nevertheless, OSSEC WUI continues to list the Agent in the "Available > Agents" in red with a note of "Inactive." > > This results in the same server being listed twice: once as the new > active server, and once as the removed "Inactive" server. > > Since the OSSEC Agent associated with the previous server > instantiation is removed permanently, I would prefer the WEBUI listing > to be removed, rather than showing an "Inactive" status. Restarting > OSSEC Manager does not affect the "Inactive" listing for the agent in > WEBUI, nor does restarting Apache. > > Is there a way to get the removed agents to be no longer listed on the > WEBUI interface? > > Many thanks.
