Hi anderscooter,

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:16 AM, anderscooter <[email protected]> wrote:
> We are connecting to the server, but get these message 'Unable to send
> message to server". I enabled debugging but I cannot seem to find a
> reason for the messages. This is only happening on a couple servers
> and cannot find any commonality among the affected machines.
>

Try checking the ossec.log on the manager, to see if there are any
helpful messages there.
Also, make sure all agents have a unique IP in manage_agents (or are
using a CIDR, that doesn't have to be unique).

> 2011/01/14 09:02:50 ossec-agent(4102): INFO: Connected to the server
> (xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1514).
> 2011/01/14 09:02:50 ossec-agent(1951): INFO: Analyzing event log:
> 'Application'.
> 2011/01/14 09:02:50 ossec-agent(1951): INFO: Analyzing event log:
> 'Security'.
> 2011/01/14 09:02:53 ossec-agent(1951): INFO: Analyzing event log:
> 'System'.
> 2011/01/14 09:02:53 ossec-agent: INFO: Started (pid: 2508).
> 2011/01/14 09:03:49 ossec-agent: INFO: Starting syscheck scan
> (forwarding database).
> 2011/01/14 09:03:49 ossec-agent: INFO: Starting syscheck database (pre-
> scan).
> 2011/01/14 09:03:49 ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:
> \boot.ini': No such file or directory
> 2011/01/14 09:03:49 ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:
> \Windows/System32/CONFIG.NT': No such file or directory
> 2011/01/14 09:03:49 ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:
> \Windows/System32/AUTOEXEC.NT': No such file or directory
> 2011/01/14 09:03:49 ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:
> \Windows/System32/debug.exe': No such file or directory
> 2011/01/14 09:03:49 ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:
> \Windows/System32/drwatson.exe': No such file or directory
> 2011/01/14 09:03:49 ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:
> \Windows/System32/drwtsn32.exe': No such file or directory
> 2011/01/14 09:03:49 ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:
> \Windows/System32/edlin.exe': No such file or directory
> 2011/01/14 09:03:49 ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:
> \Windows/System32/eventtriggers.exe': No such file or directory
> 2011/01/14 09:03:49 ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:
> \Windows/System32/rcp.exe': No such file or directory
> 2011/01/14 09:03:49 ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:
> \Windows/System32/rexec.exe': No such file or directory
> 2011/01/14 09:03:49 ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:
> \Windows/System32/rsh.exe': No such file or directory
> 2011/01/14 09:03:51 ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:
> \Windows/System32/telnet.exe': No such file or directory
> 2011/01/14 09:03:51 ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:
> \Windows/System32/tftp.exe': No such file or directory
> 2011/01/14 09:03:51 ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:
> \Windows/System32/tlntsvr.exe': No such file or directory
> 2011/01/14 09:03:51 ossec-agent: INFO: Finished creating syscheck
> database (pre-scan completed).
> 2011/01/14 09:04:01 ossec-agent: INFO: Ending syscheck scan
> (forwarding database).
> 2011/01/14 09:04:21 ossec-agent: INFO: Starting rootcheck scan.
> 2011/01/14 09:04:26 ossec-agent: INFO: Ending rootcheck scan.
> 2011/01/14 09:06:29 ossec-agent(1218): ERROR: Unable to send message
> to server.
> 2011/01/14 09:15:12 ossec-agent: INFO: Event count after '20000':
> 17316711->10266128 (59%)
> 2011/01/14 09:28:17 ossec-agent: INFO: Event count after '20000':
> 17313995->10316576 (59%)
> 2011/01/14 09:36:07 ossec-agent(1218): ERROR: Unable to send message
> to server.
> 2011/01/14 09:41:54 ossec-agent: INFO: Event count after '20000':
> 17270398->10257672 (59%)
> 2011/01/14 09:48:51 ossec-agent(1218): ERROR: Unable to send message
> to server.
> 2011/01/14 09:53:55 ossec-agent(1218): ERROR: Unable to send message
> to server.
> 2011/01/14 09:54:08 ossec-agent: INFO: Event count after '20000':
> 17289252->10263464 (59%)
> 2011/01/14 10:01:19 ossec-agent(1218): ERROR: Unable to send message
> to server.
> 2011/01/14 10:09:22 ossec-agent: INFO: Event count after '20000':
> 17223575->10223496 (59%)
>
>

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