On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Lsilverman
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I did not set it on the server. Where/how would I do that?
>
> Thanks for your quick response!!!!
>

In the server's /var/ossec/etc/ossec.conf, in the <syscheck> block.

http://www.ossec.net/doc/syntax/head_ossec_config.syscheck.html


>From one of my ossec.confs:

  <syscheck>
    <!-- Frequency that syscheck is executed - default to every 22 hours -->
    <frequency>7200</frequency>
    <alert_new_files>yes</alert_new_files>
    <auto_ignore>no</auto_ignore>
     ...
   </syscheck>

>
>
> On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:22:00 AM UTC-5, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Lsilverman
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Let me start off with I love ossec, It's an amazing product if you take
>> > the
>> > time to learn it and tune it. My manager is a CentOS box and my agent in
>> > question is a Win 2003 R2 SP2 box.
>> >
>> > Syscheck seems to be very buggy, unless I am doing something wrong.
>> > There is
>> > a directory on my agent that should never ever change - c:\lou. There is
>> > a
>> > log dir within that dir which changes and should be ignored. I added
>> > this to
>> > that agents ossec config:
>> >
>> > <ossec_config>
>> >  <syscheck>
>> >    <alert_new_files>yes</alert_new_files>
>> >    <directories realtime="yes" report_changes="yes"
>> > check_all="yes">C:\lou</directories>
>> >    <ignore>C:\lou\logs</ignore>
>> >   </syscheck>
>> > </ossec_config>
>> >
>> > I restarted ossec and I see the dir being monitored:
>> > 2012/12/18 17:06:26 ossec-agent: INFO: Monitoring directory: 'C:\lou'.
>> >
>> >
>> > I added a rule to my manager's local_rules.xml as a test to alert on new
>> > files:
>> >
>> > <group name="local,">
>> >  <rule id="554" level="14" overwrite="yes">
>> >   <if_group>syscheck</if_group>
>> >   <decoded_as>syscheck_new_entry</decoded_as>
>> >   <description>File added to an ossec monitored folder.</description>
>> >   <group>syscheck,</group>
>> >  </rule>
>> > </group>
>> >
>> > I added a few files to the folder and waited. I did not get any alerts
>> > but I
>> > did get this in my agents log:
>> >
>> > 2012/12/18 17:26:35 ossec-agent(1107): ERROR: Unable to create
>> > directory:
>> > '/var/ossec/queue/diff/local/:\lou'
>> > 2012/12/18 17:26:35 ossec-agent(1124): ERROR: Unable to rename file:
>> > 'C:\lou/delmetest.txt'.
>> > 2012/12/18 17:26:35 ossec-agent(1107): ERROR: Unable to create
>> > directory:
>> > '/var/ossec/queue/diff/local/:\lou'
>> > 2012/12/18 17:26:35 ossec-agent(1124): ERROR: Unable to rename file:
>> > 'C:\lou/delme2.txt'.
>> > 2012/12/18 17:26:55 ossec-agent: INFO: Ending syscheck scan.
>> >
>> > Does anyone see an issue with my config? Ossec knows that those are new
>> > files, why do I not get an alert? Why is my windows ossec install
>> > looking
>> > for the /var dir? Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Did you set alert_new_files on the server? It doesn't mean anything on
>> the agent.
>> I don't know if report_changes works on Windows. I didn't think so,
>> but I could be wrong.

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