I've switched one of my ARs to use defined-agent. I'll let you know
tomorrow if it works.

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:24 PM, jplee3 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is anyone else having issues with getting AR to work when <location>
> is set to "defined-agent" and the log alerts/analysis is on the OSSEC
> server itself?
>
>
>
> On Feb 7, 12:00 pm, Jeremy Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Actually, <location>local</location> does work (in addition to 'server') -
>> thinking about it, this makes sense because what I'm doing is I'm forwarding
>> a log (using logger) and writing it to a log file on the syslog server
>> (which is also the OSSEC server). I'm having OSSEC analyze that log file
>> locally. So "local" wouldn't make sense anyway. In any case, it does work as
>> expected. BUT, the <location>defined-agent</location> still has issues. I've
>> tried 2-3 defined agents thus far and cannot get AR to kick off on any of
>> them.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Jeremy Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I tried going simple and tested AR on the server first. That worked. I then
>> > tried AR on the local agent (as well as a defined-agent) and that's where 
>> > it
>> > failed. I turned debug on in internal_options.conf but couldn't find
>> > anything useful. Is there any other debugging I can turn on? I'll give it a
>> > shot again today to see if anything comes of it.
>>
>> > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM, dan (ddp) <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> Start simple. Only have 1 ar configuration on the server to start with
>> >> (you have 1 for agent 108 and 1 for 109, remove until you have 1 for 1
>> >> agent).
>> >> Also run the agent processes in debug mode, see if there are any
>> >> useful log messages.
>>
>> >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Jeremy Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > ossec-execd is running on the agents.
>>
>> >> > The strangest part of all this is that I can successfully issue
>> >> > `agent-control -u...` and get the null-route command to work manually.
>> >> But
>> >> > for some reason it won't work the normal way, even though the relevant
>> >> rule
>> >> > ID is getting triggered.
>>
>> >> > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:33 AM, dan (ddp) <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> >> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:15 PM, jplee3 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> >> > I also tried with <location>all</location> and it did not work.
>>
>> >> >> > Something I did notice: on the OSSEC server the "/var/ossec/queue/
>> >> >> > alerts/ar" file exists while on the agents I'm trying to get this to
>> >> >> > work on, that file does not exist. Is this the cause of the problem?
>> >> >> > If so, what would have caused the ar file to go away? And how can I
>> >> >> > get it back?
>>
>> >> >> That file does not exist on my agents:
>> >> >> [ddp@junction] :; sudo -s
>> >> >> # ls -l /var/ossec/queue/alerts/
>> >> >> total 0
>> >> >> srw-rw----  1 root  ossec  0 Jan 26 22:26 execq
>>
>> >> >> Is ossec-execd running on the agents? Does it work on any agents?
>>
>> >> >> > On Feb 4, 3:02 pm, jplee3 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> >> >> Hey guys,
>>
>> >> >> >> I'm not exactly sure what happened but it seems my Active Response
>> >> >> >> stopped working. I've verified the rule behind the AR gets triggered
>> >> >> >> and I also manually tested the rule via the agent_control command.
>>
>> >> >> >> Here's the configs/logs:
>>
>> >> >> >> ossec.conf:
>> >> >> >>   <command>
>> >> >> >>     <name>route-null</name>
>> >> >> >>     <executable>route-null.sh</executable>
>> >> >> >>     <expect>srcip</expect>
>> >> >> >>     <timeout_allowed>yes</timeout_allowed>
>> >> >> >>   </command>
>>
>> >> >> >>   <active-response>
>> >> >> >>     <command>route-null</command>
>> >> >> >>     <location>defined-agent</location>
>> >> >> >>     <agent_id>108</agent_id>
>> >> >> >>     <rules_id>300042</rules_id>
>> >> >> >>     <timeout>1800</timeout>
>> >> >> >>   </active-response>
>>
>> >> >> >>   <active-response>
>> >> >> >>     <command>route-null</command>
>> >> >> >>     <location>defined-agent</location>
>> >> >> >>     <agent_id>109</agent_id>
>> >> >> >>     <rules_id>300042</rules_id>
>> >> >> >>     <timeout>1800</timeout>
>> >> >> >>   </active-response>
>>
>> >> >> >> alert.log (sanitized):
>> >> >> >> ** Alert 1296859856.1087142244: mail  - local,syslog,
>> >> >> >> 2011 Feb 04 14:50:56 lxapp5->/nas/logs/attack/attack.log
>> >> >> >> Rule: 300042 (level 8) -> 'Multiple scripted attack'
>> >> >> >> Src IP: 192.168.1.45
>> >> >> >> User: user2
>> >> >> >> [blah blah blah blah blah 192.168.45 blah blah blah user2]
>>
>> >> >> >> So the alert is definitely being triggered here...
>>
>> >> >> >> To test that AR is functional:
>> >> >> >> server:
>> >> >> >> /var/ossec/bin/agent_control -u 109 -b 1.2.3.4 -f route-null1800
>>
>> >> >> >> OSSEC HIDS agent_control: Running active response 'route-null1800'
>> >> on:
>> >> >> >> 109
>>
>> >> >> >> agent (active-responses.log):
>> >> >> >> Fri Feb  4 14:58:29 PST 2011 /var/ossec/active-response/bin/route-
>> >> >> >> null.sh add - 1.2.3.4 (from_the_server) (no_rule_id)
>>
>> >> >> >> So for some reason it seems OSSEC is not paying attention to the
>> >> >> >> portion of the conf regarding active responses... it might just be a
>> >> >> >> dumb typo but is there anyway to debug further to find the root
>> >> cause?
>> >> >> >> Or does anyone see anything wrong with the snippet of the conf? I
>> >> also
>> >> >> >> tried removing "<disabled>no</disabled" to no avail. I have made no
>> >> >> >> changes to the route-null.sh AR script either. This was all working
>> >> >> >> previously and I had to stop it due to issues back in January. I
>> >> just
>> >> >> >> got back to playing around with this again and it's not working.
>>
>> >> >> >> Any ideas?

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