Nevermind.... I don't know what happened. There must have been a small
typo somewhere. I was trying to get this working with Active Response
and nothing would work. I at least got 5720 to trigger first and then
ended up re-writing the AR in ossec.conf and testing with another rule
to make sure AR was working in general. Things appear to work,
although I haven't tested the 3 or 4 other rules I setup with AR yet.
Arg.

On Feb 22, 2:42 pm, jplee3 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anybody done much testing with the frequency and timeframe
> parameters in various rulesets?
>
> I'm trying to get it to work with SSH logins and am having issues.
>
> This is in reference to alerts 5712 and 5720 specifically.
>
> The SSH server I'm testing this on is pretty busy - I noticed that the
> rules don't fire very frequently say if I set the frequency to 3 or 4
> and the timeframe to 120. I am definitely failing 3-4 times within the
> 120 seconds but the alerts are not triggering.
>
> I currently have this setup in server-agent mode and previously had it
> working in local mode.
>
> Is there a limitation that the same message must be repeated 3-4 (or
> whatever I set the freq to) times in subsequent order and without
> 'interruption' (i.e. other messages popping up in between) in order to
> trigger? I noticed that if I fired off 4 quick logon failures I was
> able to get 5720 to fire. But I haven't been able to get it to fire
> again thus far. There are a lot of other messages that pop up in
> between. I would assume this shouldn't affect the alert though.
>
> Has anybody else tried/tested this or have it working in similar
> circumstances?
>
> TIA

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