The only thing I can think of is that you have an error of some kind in the 
section

<agent_config os="Windows">...</agent_config>

The problem should be pointed to in the log on the agent. Mine is "ossec.log" 
in the ossec home directory: "C:\Program Files\ossec-agent\ossec.log".

-- 
Shane Castle
Data Security Mgr, Boulder County IT
CISSP GSEC GCIH


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Kevin Kirschler
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 14:46
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ossec-list] 2.6 agent.conf os="Windows" not working?

Hello all.  I have done quite a bit of searching and haven't found an answer.  
Or anyone else saying they are having this problem, so maybe it is something I 
am doing.

I am just trying out OSSEC at this point.  I'm using 2.6.  And I am trying to 
use the centralized agent configuration, because I will be deploying to a few 
thousand machines if we move forward.

Here is the issue.  My windows agent is not respecting os="Windows" in the 
agent.conf.  To explain a bit, I have the agent.conf file with a section 
<agent_config os="Windows">.  The ossec.conf file on the agent just has the 
section pointing to the server.  The agent.conf file goes to the agent machine 
just fine, but when I restart the agent I get notices in the log about nothing 
being defined for syscheck, and stuff like that.

BUT...  if I take the "os="Windows"" part out, and just start with 
<agent_config>, it will work just fine.  I restart the agent and the log shows 
what is expected.

Any thoughts on why my agent doesn't seem to like the os="Windows" part?

Thanks!


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