Tested this on a Linux box and Windows box. All failed attempts are
logging to the central OSSEC server. Seems like there might be an
issue with agent_control?


On Dec 6, 10:46 am, "loyd.darby" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pudding test, try to log in to one of the windows boxes and put in the
> wrong password.
> If that does not show up in the alerts log on the server, it is not working.
>
> On 12/06/2010 12:31 PM, jplee3 wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I'm running the latest version 2.5.1 and noticed that after a number
> > of hours, a handful of my agents, mostly Windows machines (but there
> > are a few Linux boxes too) show up as "disconnected" when I run
> > agent_control -l
>
> > What is odd is when I log in to look at these boxes, they appear to
> > still be connected as much as I can see in the ossec.log. And the
> > syschecks are still running. If I run agent_control -i ID -e, it shows
> > the most recent syscheck scans (start and end) and they appear to be
> > valid.
>
> > Again, nothing in the ossec.log on the servers I've checked indicates
> > that the machines are disconnected. CHecking the ossec.log on my
> > central server, I see some "Incorrectly formated message" errors but
> > not for machines that are disconnected.
>
> > Any ideas on what might be going on here? Has anywhere else seen this
> > kind of behavior?
>
> > TIA!
>
> --
> R. Loyd Darby, OSSIM-OCSE
> Project Manager DOC/NOAA/NMFS
> Infrastructure coordinator
> Southeast Fisheries Science Center
> 305-361-4297

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