Hi Joe,
Just wanted to confirm if the keep alive time should be within 10 mins of
the current time. ?


Regards
Tanishk

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Joe Gedeon
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ossec-list] Re: Agents showing 'disconnected' but not?

You will need to do further investigation of what is going on.

Check ossec/logs/ossec.log on both the OSSEC Server and the agents.
Also on the server tcpdump -ni <interface> src <agent_IP> and port
1514  will show you if the agent is trying to connect to the server.


Example:
tcpdump -ni eth0 src 192.168.1.10 and port 1514



On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 17:57, jplee3 <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is correct - all of the agents are outside of the 10 minute
> window.
>
> Does this just mean that OSSEC stopped sending keep-alives, but not
> necessarily that the agents are actually 'disconnected' ?
>
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 6, 2:06 pm, Joe Gedeon <[email protected]> wrote:
>> When you see that check with agent_control -i and check when the last
>> keep alive was.  It should be within 10 minutes of the current time.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 14:12, jplee3 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > 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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