From what I read, I should set frequency to 0 in order to get the alarm every 2 
events. I'll try and let you know..

The 1005001 fires.

Thank you
Denis


Il giorno 27/mag/2011, alle ore 14:22, "dan (ddp)" <[email protected]> ha 
scritto:

> Does 100501 fire?
> 
> It may be a "frequency" issue, take a look at the following thread, it
> may be useful:
> http://marc.info/?l=ossec-list&m=129736702512080&w=2
> 
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Denis Gasparin
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi to all.
>> 
>> We have a postgresql installation that writes two lines for every query
>> error. For example after executing the query "select * from
>> unexistant_table", the postgresql log file has the following two lines:
>> 
>> May 26 20:11:46 test_machine postgres: 22495[4dde97bd.57df-17]
>> user@ossec([local]) SELECT ERROR: relation "unexistant_table" does not
>> exist
>> May 26 20:11:46 test_machine postgres: 22495[4dde97bd.57df-18]
>> user@ossec([local]) SELECT STATEMENT: select * from unexistant_table;
>> 
>> We need to send an alert for every query error with attached the relative
>> "STATEMENT".
>> 
>> Because our postgres log format is different from that bundled with ossec,
>> we wrote our decoder and our rules.
>> 
>> The decoder (edistar_pgsql) works fine. The rules works ok for single
>> events.
>> For sending the previous two lines within the same alert we created a
>> composite rule with a very restricted timeframe, so the two events will be
>> grouped together. He are the relevant rules written so far:
>> 
>> <group name="edistar_pgsql,">
>>  <rule id="100500" level="0">
>>    <decoded_as>edistar_postgresql</decoded_as>
>>    <description>Edistar PostgreSQL messages grouped.</description>
>>  </rule>
>> 
>>  <rule id="100501" level="4">
>>    <if_sid>100500</if_sid>
>>    <status>ERROR|STATEMENT</status>
>>    <description>PostgreSQL error message and relative
>> statement.</description>
>>    <group>pgsql_query_failures,</group>
>>  </rule>
>> 
>>  <rule id="100502" level="8" frequency="2" timeframe="1" ignore="0">
>>    <if_matched_group>pgsql_query_failures</if_matched_group>
>>    <description>PostgreSQL error message. Query attached.</description>
>>  </rule
>> </group>
>> 
>> The composite rule does not work as expected. In order to trigger it, two
>> query error must be generated in the timeframe, so the log would be:
>> May 26 20:11:46 test_machine postgres: 22495[4dde97bd.57df-17]
>> user@ossec([local]) SELECT ERROR: relation "unexistant_table" does not
>> exist
>> May 26 20:11:46 test_machine postgres: 22495[4dde97bd.57df-18]
>> user@ossec([local]) SELECT STATEMENT: select * from unexistant_table;
>> May 26 20:11:46 test_machine postgres: 22495[4dde97bd.57df-17]
>> user@ossec([local]) SELECT ERROR: relation "unexistant_table" does not
>> exist
>> May 26 20:11:46 test_machine postgres: 22495[4dde97bd.57df-18]
>> user@ossec([local]) SELECT STATEMENT: select * from unexistant_table;
>> 
>> In this case OSSEC would generate an alert with only two lines (the second
>> and the third).
>> 
>> Can you help me? Is there another way to get the correct result?
>> 
>> Thank you in advance for your help,
>> Denis
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