Be careful using rule IDs in OSSEC ranges. 5722 and 5723 are already
being used. ;)

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:06 PM, jplee3 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Whitelisting the scanner doesn't solve the problem, because someone
> else might inadvertently scan one system and cause AR to fire on a
> completely different system where it shouldn't have fired.
>
> I basically just want AR to fire for a specific group of machines
> whenever a certain alert gets tripped on only those machines.
>
> I think I figured it out either way though. This appears to do the
> job:
>
>  <rule id="5722" level="5">
>    <if_sid>5710</if_sid>
>    <hostname>ssh1|ssh2<hostname>
>    <match>illegal user|invalid user</match>
>    <description>Attempt to login using a non-existent user</
> description>
>    <group>invalid_login,authentication_failed,</group>
>  </rule>
>
>
>  <rule id="5723" level="10" frequency="10" timeframe="120">
>    <if_matched_sid>5722</if_matched_sid>
>    <description>SSHD brute force trying to get access to </
> description>
>    <description>the system.</description>
>    <same_source_ip />
>    <group>authentication_failures,</group>
>  </rule>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 3, 1:32 pm, satish patel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'd say use whitelist.  and add your scannser IP in whitelist
>>
>> I have same issue and and i guess that is only option we have.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:21 PM, jplee3 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hey guys,
>>
>> > So I noticed this while running an internal Nessus scan on the
>> > network. Apparently AR kicked in because certain rules fired (5712 to
>> > be exact) which are not host-specific and ended up null-routing the
>> > Nessus scanner machine on the defined-agents I have setup for AR.
>>
>> > Anyway, I just came across this 
>> > -http://www.ossec.net/wiki/Know_How:Ignore_Rules
>>
>> > Can I add multiple hostnames delimited by "," or "|" so that the rules
>> > (and subsequently the ARs) will fire only on the hosts of origin?
>>
>> > I would use "local" but I want AR to occur on a subset of my agents
>> > (not all of them).
>>
>> > Unless there's another way to do this.
>>
>> > Any ideas?
>>
>>

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