On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Eero Volotinen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2012/9/19 Andreas Lang <[email protected]>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We have some questions regarding analysing log files with OSSEC referring to
>> the log file requirements in PCI-DSS 10.5.5.
>>
>> PCI DSS 10.5.5.:
>> Use file-integrity monitoring or change-detection software on logs to ensure
>> that existing log data cannot be changed without generating alerts (although
>> new data being added should not cause an alert).
>>
>> To cover this issue we wanted to enable real-time monitoring on our log file
>> directories. Unfortunately we are getting this error:
>> Ignoring flag for real time monitoring on directory: '/data/'
>>
>> Our servers are based on Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04 and 11.10, all x64 systems. We
>> are using OSSEC 2.5 for clients and server. I know, that for real-time
>> monitoring the tool inotify-tools must be installed, but unfortunately this
>> didn’t resolve the issue.
>> Do you have any suggestions have we can make the real-time monitoring of
>> growing log files working correctly?
>
> how about installing samhain on ossec server to monitor ossec logs?
>
> --
> Eero

And Aide to monitor the samhain stuff!

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