Hi,

I have just checked on my server and yes - <match> instead of <id> works 
fine for me, too.
Thanks for your help!

Ivars


On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 5:43:58 PM UTC+2, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:14 AM, IvarsG <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > I have spent some time trying to eliminate noise from Snort logs (in 
> > particular, two events which are ok on a given server), but without a 
> > success. 
> > Googling, reading manuals and experimenting didn't help much. Even 
> enabling 
> > all debugs in /var/ossec/etc/internal_ 
> > options.conf didn't gave me any obvious clues to solution. 
> > 
> > The problem is, that local rules exactly for Snort events fire very well 
> and 
> > does the intended action only while running ossec-logtest tool. 
> > When the OSSEC service is started normally, the local rule is not fired 
> any 
> > more. 
> > 
> > Could there be a problem with snort log format? In fact, it shouldn't, 
> since 
> > if there were a problem with multiline format of snort alert file, there 
> > wouldn't be any osscec alert from snort file at all. But the point is, 
> that 
> > standard alerts are there - only my custom alert is ignored. 
> > 
> > I tried to do the similar thing with alerts from sshd, and in this case 
> > everything works as expected. 
> > 
> > Two custom rules are as follows: 
> > 
> > <group name="ids,"> 
> > 
> >   <rule id="100001" level="4"> 
> >     <if_sid>20100,20101</if_sid> 
> >     <decoded_as>snort</decoded_as> 
> >     <!-- [119:15:1] (http_inspect) OVERSIZE REQUEST-URI DIRECTORY 
> >        - [119:16:1] (http_inspect) OVERSIZE CHUNK ENCODING 
> >     --> 
> >     <id>119:15:1|119:16:1</id> 
> >     <description>Lower the level for some (http_inspect) 
> > events.</description> 
> >   </rule> 
> > 
> > </group> <!-- IDS --> 
> > 
> > <group name="sshd,"> 
> > 
> >   <rule id="100099" level="5"> 
> >     <if_sid>5710</if_sid> 
> >     <decoded_as>sshd</decoded_as> 
> >     <description>IVARSG: rule intercepted, works fine!!!!.</description> 
> >   </rule> 
> > 
> > </group> <!-- IDS --> 
> > 
> > Rule 100099 fires in both scenario - logtest and when ossec run as 
> service, 
> > however, rule 100001 fires only when tested with logtest (rule while 
> rule 
> > 20101 also fires in both scenarios). 
> > 
> > Could someone please suggest some solution? 
> > 
> > 
> > See attached detailed info as suggested in "How do I troubleshoot 
> ossec?" 
> > section (ip addresses and hostname is modified a little). 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your time and help, 
> > Ivars 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
>
> Thanks for including all of that info, it was helpful! 
>
> This isn't a fix, but it works for me if I use a <match> instead of 
> the id. Still looking into it though. 
>
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