On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:15 AM, kay kay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Dan
>
>> What did you set in the agent.conf file?
>
> here is my /var/ossec/etc/shared/agent.conf:
>
> <agent_config>
> <localfile>
> <log_format>apache</log_format>

I thought nginx had its own format?

> <location>/var/log/nginx/error_log</location>
> </localfile>
> </agent_config>
>
>> Did the agent.conf file get transferred from the server to the agents?
>
> No, it didn't. I checked /var/ossec/etc/ossec-agent.conf,
> /var/ossec/etc/ossec.conf (symlink to ossec-agent.conf) and
> /var/ossec/etc/shared/ossec.conf
>

/var/ossec/etc/ossec.conf and /var/ossec/etc/shared/agent.conf are
valid. I am not familiar with ossec-agent.conf.

>> Did you restart the agent processes after the new agent.conf was
>> transferred?
>
> agent.conf was not transferred but I tried to reatsrt it anyway.
>

How long did you wait? It can take a while for the transfer to complete.

>> Why do you think it isn't working?
>
> Modification time of *.conf files on agents is not changed. And conf files
> actually doesn't contain:
> <location>/var/log/nginx/error_log</location>
>
>
> пятница, 12 октября 2012 г., 16:35:27 UTC+4 пользователь dan (ddpbsd)
> написал:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 7:37 AM, kay kay <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I tried to follow the
>> > http://www.ossec.net/doc/manual/agent/agent-configuration.html manual
>> > but
>> > agents doesn't get the configuration from shared directory
>> > (/var/ossec/etc/shared directory on server).
>> >
>>
>> Please use specifics. What did you set in the agent.conf file? Did the
>> agent.conf file get transferred from the server to the agents? Did you
>> restart the agent processes after the new agent.conf was transferred?
>> Why do you think it isn't working?
>>
>> > пятница, 12 октября 2012 г., 10:46:38 UTC+4 пользователь kay kay
>> > написал:
>> >>
>> >> At the moment I use syslog-ng to collect logs from whole servers and
>> >> analyze them on ossec-server with decoders and rules.
>> >>
>> >> How can I configure ossec-server to avoid log collecting with
>> >> syslog-ng?
>> >>
>> >> I.e. I have two servers (ossec-agents) with nginx. I need to analyze
>> >> nginx
>> >> logs. Should I configure decoder and rule on each ossec-agents or I can
>> >> create one decoder and one rule on ossec-server and it will be
>> >> automatically
>> >> pushed to ossec-agents?
>>
>

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