On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:02 AM, kay kay <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have just enabled detailed debug log (level 2) but can't find any logs for
> "shared" or "agent.conf"
> Could you please explain what should look for ?
>

On the server I changed my agent.conf, restarted the server processes.
Then restarted the agent's ossec processes and saw the following in
the server's ossec.log:

2012/10/12 10:05:13 ossec-remoted: DEBUG Sending file 'merged.mg' to agent.

The merged.mg file is a few config files merged together. They get
split on the agent side. After seeing this message I waited a minute,
and checked the md5 of the agent.conf. It matched the new agent.conf
on the server.

> пятница, 12 октября 2012 г., 17:49:05 UTC+4 пользователь dan (ddpbsd)
> написал:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:24 AM, kay kay <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> I thought nginx had its own format?
>> >
>> > It works great on ossec-server.
>> >
>> >> /var/ossec/etc/ossec.conf and /var/ossec/etc/shared/agent.conf are
>> >> valid. I am not familiar with ossec-agent.conf.
>> >
>> > /var/ossec/etc/ossec.conf is a symlink to
>> > /var/ossec/etc/ossec-agent.conf on
>> > ossec agents.
>> >
>>
>> Not on any ossec agent I have, but it doesn't really matter.
>>
>> >> How long did you wait? It can take a while for the transfer to
>> >> complete.
>> >
>> > About 4 hours already.
>> >
>> > I even can't find any logs related to agent.conf pushing.
>> >
>>
>> Restarting the ossec processes in debug mode might produce some logs about
>> it.
>>
>> I'd try touching agent.conf and making sure the permissions are
>> correct. This works for me:
>>
>> [ddp@junction] :; ls -l /var/ossec/etc/shared/agent.conf
>> -rw-r--r--  1 ossec  ossec  10908 Aug 16 11:52
>> /var/ossec/etc/shared/agent.conf
>>
>>
>> > пятница, 12 октября 2012 г., 17:18:36 UTC+4 пользователь dan (ddpbsd)
>> > написал:
>> >>
>> >> 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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