On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Charles Bailey
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I appreciate all the help. OSSEC has a big learning curve, but I think I'm
> making progress.
>
> OK, I have another issue. I have Piwik installed, and every time Piwik gets
> a 'hit', I get a warning in OSSEC. I googled it, and found 3 rules that
> should help:
>
> <rule id="31164" level="3">
>   <if_sid>31100</if_sid>
>   <url>/piwik/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=</url>
>   <description>Login attempt</description>
>   <group>piwik_login_attempt,</group>
> </rule>
>
> <rule id="31165" level="8" frequency="5" timeframe="60">
>   <if_sid>31100</if_sid>
>   <if_matched_group>piwik_login_attempt</if_matched_group>
>   <description>to much Login attempts</description>
> </rule>
>
> <rule id="SOMETHING" level="0">

You did put a real id in there in place of the "SOMETHING" correct?

>   <if_sid>31106</if_sid>
>   <match>Form%20</match>
>   <description>Ignore Form%20</description>
> </rule>
>
> Problem is, when I put any of them in my web_rules.xml, OSSEC's status (From

That's a bad idea. You should add custom rules to local_rules.xml.
web_rules.xml will get overwritten during an upgrade.

> the web interface)turns red, and says 'Inactive'. Of course, it doesn't log
> anything in this state. Do these rules somehow break OSSEC?
>

Did you check ossec.log? That generally gives you more information.
Did you run "ossec-logtest -t?" That checks the rules to make sure
they won't break OSSEC.

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