On Oct 9, 2013 8:11 PM, "Jeff Allison" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I obviously have the wrong end of the stick here.
>
> In our environment all of our *nix boxes log to a central server, and we
monitor the logs there.
>
> We have a box "prodbio2" which is not long for this world and is
generating a lot of logs that we don't want.
>
> IE...
>
> Oct 10 11:06:02 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 10 11:06:02 prodbio2 kernel:     link number 0
> Oct 10 11:06:02 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 10 11:06:02 prodbio2 kernel:     dram scrub error
> Oct 10 11:06:02 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 10 11:06:02 prodbio2 kernel:     corrected ecc error
> Oct 10 11:06:02 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 10 11:06:02 prodbio2 kernel:     previous error lost
> Oct 10 11:06:02 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 10 11:06:02 prodbio2 kernel:     NB error address 00000001d8c17750
> Oct 10 11:06:02 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 10 11:06:31 prodbio2 kernel: CPU 1: Silent Northbridge MCE
> Oct 10 11:06:31 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 10 11:06:31 prodbio2 kernel: Northbridge status 94014000:00080a13
> Oct 10 11:06:31 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 10 11:06:31 prodbio2 kernel:     Error chipkill ecc error
> Oct 10 11:06:31 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 10 11:06:31 prodbio2 kernel:     ECC error syndrome 2
> Oct 10 11:06:31 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 10 11:06:32 prodbio2 kernel:     bus error local node response,
request didn't time out
> Oct 10 11:06:32 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 10 11:06:32 prodbio2 kernel:     link number 0
> Oct 10 11:06:32 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 10 11:06:32 prodbio2 kernel:     corrected ecc error
> Oct 10 11:06:32 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 10 11:06:32 prodbio2 kernel:     previous error lost
> Oct 10 11:06:32 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 10 11:06:32 prodbio2 kernel:     NB error address 000000010fa199a0
> Oct 10 11:06:32 prodbio2 last message repeated 2 times
>
> These generate logs like below that I don't care about so I want to
ignore them.
>
> OSSEC HIDS Notification.
> 2013 Oct 10 11:03:06
>
> Received From: prodbio2->/mnt/syslogs/messages
> Rule: 1002 fired (level 2) -> "Unknown problem somewhere in the system."
> Portion of the log(s):
>
> Oct 10 11:04:01 prodbio2 kernel:     ECC error syndrome 8
>
> I have the following in my local_rules.xml
>
>   <rule id="100040" level="0">
>     <if_sid>1002</if_sid>
>     <match>prodbio2</match>

prodbio2 doesn't appear in the body of the log messagw, only in the header.
Try hostname instead of match.

>     <description>List of rules to be ignored.</description>
>     <options>no_log</options>
>   </rule>
>
> To filter them out, they don't.
>
> So what am I doing wrong?
>
> I presumably have got the wrong end of the stick somewhere, but where I
have no idea.
>
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