On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Michiel van Es <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2012/9/24 dan (ddp) <[email protected]> > >> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Michiel van Es <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > We are using OSSEC for a PoC and we want to show only some alerts >> > initially >> > and expand the alert list. >> > We are using OSSEC 2.6 mixed Windows and Linux agents. >> > 1 Manager and several agents and Splunk on the manager server to show >> > the >> > alerts. >> > >> > For now we want to achieve to show only failed and successful logins and >> > file integrity alerts. >> > How can we achieve this? => manually going through all rules/xml files >> > and >> > set accordingly all xml entries to 0 or anything else? (0 meaning >> > disabled >> > and dont show) or is there an easier way of achieving this? >> > >> > Kind regards, >> > >> > Michiel >> >> >>You can remove entire rules files if you don't want to use them. Just >> >>test your changes (/var/ossec/bin/ossec-logtest -t) after you do this >> >>to make sure you didn't get rid of something necessary. > > > Would you suggest creating specific rules in xml files with the correct > alerts and move/disable all others and start from there?
You should do it however you think is best. I don't like this approach and don't have an opinion on it. > This has to be done on the manager /var/ossec/rules and use these rules in > /var/ossec/etc/ossec-server.conf , correct? I don't know what ossec-server.conf is. It doesn't exist on any of my systems. > After that a restart of ossec-hids ? > > Thanks for the help > > Michiel
