You'll find even a default install will start alerting you to a lot of things..

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of vtrack
Sent: 13 August 2013 07:16
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ossec-list] Re: Use cases for OSSEC

Thanks for your reply. We do not intend to use OSSEC for checking core failures 
like hardware, drive failures etc.. but especially use for Operating system 
integrity checks, and alerts for any malicious activities. From what you 
mentioned, looks like I need to add specific rules to enable such alerts. I 
would take a look at the rules, syntax etc to get this running on our systems. 
Please let me know if you have any pointers.

Thanks again.

On Monday, August 12, 2013 9:38:18 PM UTC+5:30, David Blanton wrote:
Your alerting system is something only you and your management team can decide 
on. If you wish to get an e-mail/text on all of the above, go for it.

Our team took a  more minimalist approach, only getting alerts on critical 
errors: hardware failure, attacks, malware, critical logs to our production 
network, et al so we can take
immediate action.

Everything below alert level 2, does not get logged because of the 'Unknown 
problem in the system' rule (very helpful). Root su, opened sessions, closed 
sessions, successful
ssh's do not get fired in our deployment because it is something that is 
redundant and makes parsing through the logs more tedious.

If you could give us an idea of what your network does, we could give you a 
better idea of what you could have OSSEC look for. If it's a general network at 
work, I would look into
monitoring disk space, firewalls, malware, and unsuccessful sudo's to su/root 
sessions. You will notice that there are tens of thousands of rules in OSSEC 
that can be
used to fire an alert, and it has the capability to do so much.

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