I believe that the ossec menu group only gets put into the user's profile that installed it. I use Bigfix/Tivoli and it runs as SYSTEM, so no start menu. Check that the ossec directory exists under C:\Program Files and also that the service exists.
I'm not sure about Altiris, but Bigfix/Tivoli allows you to monitor/report on these things. See how I've set that up here: http://shawnjefferson.blogspot.com/2010/10/monitoring-your-ossec-installation-with.html From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Randy Dover Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 5:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ossec-list] Windows Agent silent install I looked in the Mailing List Archive for silently installing the OSSEC agent on Windows machine. I saw the thread that gave the command of \\path\ossec-agent-win32-latest.exe<file:///\\path\ossec-agent-win32-latest.exe> /S to perform a silent install. (A word to all else who see this thread - the "S" is case sensitive, it has to be upper case!) I pushed it out with a script using our Altiris Deployment Server. Altiris showed a successful completion, but I didn't think it worked because when I went to the PC, I didn't see an OSSEC menu group under All Programs in the Start menu. So, I ran the ossec-agent-win32-latest.exe command and it gave me a message that the OSSEC agent was running and asked if I wanted to stop it. That let me know that the install was successful. Why didn't it create a menu group? Can I force it to create a menu group or should I just copy the OSSEC group in to the "Start" menu? Randy Dover
