The log message in 5113 does not appear to contain an IP address:
"Mar  4 12:47:55 l785 kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating."

A regex for an IP would not match that log message.

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Lars Oberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a rule for which I cannot seem to disable the email alerts.  Since
> SrcIp is not decoded for this rule, I am using a regex.  Below is my
> local_rules.xml file (only 2 rules).  The rule that doesn't fire is 100200,
> but the strange thing is that the rule below it (100201) is firing just
> fine, use the exact same regex to match on the IP address of the workstation
> I'm testing on.
>
> This is very confusing to me, but I am new to ossec, so I am hopefully just
> overlooking something simple.
>
> Below is also the e-mail notification I am trying to suppress as well as the
> contents of the alert log.
>
> What am I missing?
>
>
> ----- local_rules.xml -----
> <group name="local,syslog,">
>
> <rule id="100200" level="2">
> <if_sid>5113</if_sid>
> <regex>(10\.\d*\.3\.\d*)|(10.1.1.152)</regex>
> <options>no_email_alert</options>
> <description>No e-mail alerts for work stations shutting down.</description>
> </rule>
>
> <rule id="100201" level="2">
> <if_sid>503</if_sid>
> <regex>(10\.\d*\.3\.\d*)|(10.1.1.152)</regex>
> <options>no_email_alert</options>
> <description>No email alerts when work stations start up.</description>
> </rule>
>
> </group> <!-- SYSLOG,LOCAL -->
>
>
> ----- Email -----
> OSSEC HIDS Notification.
> 2011 Mar 04 12:47:56
>
> Received From: (785) 10.1.3.4->/var/log/messages
> Rule: 5113 fired (level 7) -> "System is shutting down."
> Portion of the log(s):
>
> Mar  4 12:47:55 l785 kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
>
>  --END OF NOTIFICATION
>
>
>
> ----- Alert log (notice that 5113 fires, instead of 100200) -----
> ** Alert 1299272104.152207: mail  - syslog,linuxkernel,system_shutdown,
> 2011 Mar 04 12:55:04 (785) 10.1.3.4->/var/log/messages
> Rule: 5113 (level 7) -> 'System is shutting down.'
> Src IP: (none)
> User: (none)
> Mar  4 12:55:03 l785 kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
>
>
> ** Alert 1299272227.153206: - local,syslog,
> 2011 Mar 04 12:57:07 (785) 10.1.3.4->ossec
> Rule: 100201 (level 2) -> 'No email alerts when POS stations start up.'
> Src IP: (none)
> User: (none)
> ossec: Agent started: '785->10.1.3.4'.
>
>
>
>

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