Hello Dan,
It sounds like you are saying the rule is "only one AR block per command 
name"?
 
I know the stock  conig has Host.deny and firewall-drop  as stock configs 
on level 6   and I see both of these triggering on the server.. 
 
To test this though I went ahead and dropped the firewall-drop that goes to 
the server, so the only entires are the ALL followed by the AGENT id 001  
firewall-drop commands
 
The firewall rule does not execute on the local server now nor does it 
activate on the agent 
 
Doesn't sound like its a 'one AR block per command name" limit  but perhaps 
I misunderstood your comment about "what is not handled"
 
 

On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 1:40:29 PM UTC-7, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:34 PM, cmlara <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > Thanks for the response dan. 
> > 
> > The configs look right to me the problem is  that per the logs the 
> Automated 
> > Responses are NOT going across to the agent they are only running on the 
> > server which is not what I need. 
> > 
> > I need the firewall to block on the agents. 
> > 
>
> You didn't set it up to do that. 
>
> > I put some inline notes about the config below but it boils down to : 
> > 
> > "server"  according to posts I've seen -- Runs the command on Managment 
> > Server only 
> > "all"  -- Runs on all agents and excludes the managment server (the 
> source 
> > code seems to back this up on quick glance) -- Really should be called 
> 'all 
> > agents' 
>
> Don't disagree, but that won't be changing. 
>
> > ID 001 -- this was a fallback  testing. 
> > 
> > So I have good contact to the agent (according to agent_control manual 
> > testing run from the command line by me not by OSSEC itself) 
> > 
> > AR  inside OSSEC  it is only executing on the local server (as 
> configured in 
> > the first AR block)  and is ignoring the 2nd and 3rd AR blocks that say 
> to 
> > execute the responses on the agents themselves. 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 1:07:02 PM UTC-7, dan (ddpbsd) wrote: 
> >> 
> >> I don't see a problem with the config, it sounds like it's doing what 
> >> you've configured it to do. 
> >> 
> >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:56 PM, cmlara <[email protected]> wrote: 
> >> > Hello All, 
> >> > 
> >> > I have setup a new server with OSSEC 2.6 on it  running FreeBSD 9.0 
> >> > 64bit 
> >> > 
> >> > I have a single agent (ID: 001)   running on a Linux node (Ubuntu 
> 12.04 
> >> > LTS 
> >> > 32bit 3.4 kernel) 
> >> > 
> >> > I feed all my logs back via syslog to the central logging server that 
> is 
> >> > the 
> >> > same server urnning ossec. 
> >> > 
> >> > OSSEC is configured to monitor the log files 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > AR is setup with: 
> >> > 
> >> >   <active-response> 
> >> >     <!-- Firewall Drop response. Block the IP for 
> >> >        - 600 seconds on the firewall (iptables, 
> >> >        - ipfilter, etc). 
> >> >       --> 
> >> >     <command>firewall-drop</command> 
> >> >     <location>server</location> 
> >> >     <level>6</level> 
> >> >     <timeout>600</timeout> 
> >> >   </active-response> 
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> Ok, so everything at level 6+ gets triggered above. Everything. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> >   <active-response> 
> >> >     <!-- Firewall Drop response. Block the IP for 
> >> >        - 600 seconds on the firewall (iptables, 
> >> >        - ipfilter, etc). 
> >> >       --> 
> >> >     <command>firewall-drop</command> 
> >> >     <location>all</location> 
> >> >     <level>6</level> 
> >> >     <timeout>600</timeout> 
> >> >   </active-response> 
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> We don't get to this one, everything level 6+ is handled in the 
> previous 
> >> AR. 
> >> 
> >  Actually the previous one  only runs the processing on the managment 
> server 
> > only.  This one runs 'all'  which  actually exculdes the server 
> according to 
> > other web posts and the source code.  It really should be called 'all 
> > agents' 
> > 
>
> The first AR block handles everything level 6+. What alerts does this 
> AR block handle that the previous block did not? (hint: none) 
>
> >> 
> >> > 
> >> >   <active-response> 
> >> >     <!-- Firewall Drop response. Block the IP for 
> >> >        - 600 seconds on the firewall (iptables, 
> >> >        - ipfilter, etc). 
> >> >       --> 
> >> >     <command>firewall-drop</command> 
> >> >     <location>defined_aget</location> 
> >> >     <agent_id>001</agent_id> 
> >> >     <level>6</level> 
> >> >     <timeout>600</timeout> 
> >> >   </active-response> 
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> We don't worry about this one either, everything this one handles is 
> >> taken care of in the first AR block. 
> >> 
> > Agreed this is a last ditch effort to see if 'all' is broken as well 
> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > I know the 'all' will not trigger on the server  but it should 
> trigger 
> >> > the 
> >> > agent.  That failed to work on the agent so i added the extra 
> agent_id 
> >> > 001 
> >> > to be sure. 
> >> > 
> >> > Looking at the logs/active-responses.log on the server: 
> >> > 
> >> > Wed Aug  1 19:41:36 UTC 2012 
> >> > /usr/local/ossec-hids/active-response/bin/host-deny.sh add - 
> >> > 61.135.137.2 
> >> > 1343850096.1242729 5712 
> >> > Wed Aug  1 19:41:36 UTC 2012 
> >> > /usr/local/ossec-hids/active-response/bin/firewall-drop.sh add - 
> >> > 61.135.137.2 1343850096.1242729 5712 
> >> > 
> >> > (more entries below and above them) 
> >> > 
> >> > On the Agent N no log entires show up. The only log entires are where 
>  I 
> >> > manually ran ./bin/agent_control  to test server to agent 
> >> > communications 
> >> > which does work: 
> >> > 
> >> > Wed Aug  1 16:53:19 UTC 2012 
> /var/ossec/active-response/bin/echoalert.sh 
> >> > add 
> >> > - 9.9.9.9 (from_the_server) (no_rule_id) 
> >> > Wed Aug  1 17:03:49 UTC 2012 
> /var/ossec/active-response/bin/echoalert.sh 
> >> > delete - 9.9.9.9 (from_the_server) (no_rule_id) 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > Anyone have any idea why the action is triggering on the server but 
> not 
> >> > on 
> >> > the agents? 
> >> > 
> >> > This is basicaly I have a number of frontend servers who are publicly 
> >> > exposed that do not have their own firewalls in front of them so each 
> >> > one 
> >> > will need to firewall itself   and should firewall based on the 
> reports 
> >> > of 
> >> > the other frontends. 
> >> > Best Regards, 
> >> > 
> >> > 
>

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