I had to accomplish this a few days ago.  See my post here,
http://itscblog.tamu.edu/ossec-email-alerts-on-active-responses/ .  I
have the exact decoder and rules I used to receive emails upon active-
response execution.

- Trey

On May 10, 1:56 pm, drin brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Okay, this is probably the dumbest question on earth.  I'm really
> sorry.  The manual for ossec is really sparse.  Here goes.
>
> I want to monitor the active-response log from within my ossec.conf
> Somewhere inside these list directives:
>   <localfile>
>     <log_format>syslog</log_format>
>     <location>/var/log/messages</location>
>   </localfile>
>
> So that I can get it to email me the changes when the file changes.
>
> But the log_format option... what do I put???

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