On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Robert Micallef <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I cannot figure out how to get the decoder to work.
>

<decoder name="ossec-mem">
  <parent>ossec</parent>
  <prematch offset="after_parent">'mem-usage': </prematch>
  <regex offset="after_prematch>^(\d+.\d+)%</regex>
  <order>extra_data</order>
</decoder>

With that you should be able to include somethinglike:
<extra_data>^7</extra_data>
in your rule (untested though, so test first).

> However are you sure that the actual log is being decoded as: 'ossec:
> output: 'mem-usage': 79,whatever%'
>

Yes, I'm sure. You can verify for yourself.

> I tried modifying the rule as follows:
>
>
> <rule id="100074" level="7" ignore="7200">
>    <if_sid>530</if_sid>
>    <match>ossec: output: 'mem-usage':7</match>
>

Double check your spacing.

>    <description>High Memory Usage</description>
> </rule>
>
> According to ossec-logtest the rule should be triggered, and yet it isn't.
>

Did you restart the ossec processes on the server after changing your rule?

>
> On 27 December 2013 14:57, dan (ddp) <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Robert Micallef <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Dan,
>> >
>> > From archives.log:
>> >
>> > 2013 Dec 27 11:31:01 (m-s-comm1) 10.152.1.227->mem-usage ossec: output:
>> > 'mem-usage':
>> > 70.85%
>> >
>> > From alerts.log I see nothing at those timestamps.
>> >
>> > Am I looking at the correct logs?
>> >
>>
>> Yes, archives.log gives you a sample of the log message you are trying
>> to match against.
>> From reading the documentation or looking at the mailing list
>> archives, you can see that there is a header on this log message. So
>> the log we want to test against is:
>> ossec: output: 'mem-usage':70.85%
>>
>> I don't have ossec available at the moment to copy/paste the whole
>> ossec-logtest output for you, but it's easy enough for you to recreate
>> on your own. The important part I want to look at first is what is
>> predecoded as the "log" field. This is what <match> and <regex>
>> entries will be looking at:
>>
>> log: 'ossec: output: 'mem-usage': 79,whatever%'
>>
>> From that one line we can tell that your regex is not correct, the
>> first character is not a number.
>>
>> You can either adjust your rule to account for this, or create a
>> decoder to put the % in a field and check against it in your rule. I
>> personally think the decoder option would be easier, but I've written
>> a few in the past.
>>
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 27 December 2013 11:13, dan (ddp) <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Dec 27, 2013 5:11 AM, "Robert Micallef" <[email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks a lot Dan. That worked like a charm. It didn't cross my mind
>> >> > to
>> >> > grep only the PID.
>> >> >
>> >> > I used the <check_diff /> option and:
>> >> > ps -ef | grep process-name | awk '{ print $2 }'
>> >> >
>> >> > It is working well now. Can you also please tell me what I did wrong
>> >> > with this rule?
>> >> >
>> >> > I created a script to output the Memory Usage. The output will be the
>> >> > percentage used. Ex: 67.5%. I want an alert when it is over 80%.
>> >> >
>> >> > I have OSSEC running the script with the following:
>> >> >
>> >> >   <localfile>
>> >> >     <log_format>full_command</log_format>
>> >> >     <command>sh /var/ossec/scripts/memusage.sh</command>
>> >> >     <alias>mem-usage</alias>
>> >> >   </localfile>
>> >> >
>> >> > On the server I created the following rule:
>> >> >
>> >> > <rule id="100074" level="7" ignore="7200">
>> >> >    <if_sid>530</if_sid>
>> >> >    <match>ossec: output: 'mem-usage':</match>
>> >> >    <regex>^8|^9|^10</regex>
>> >> >    <description>High Memory Usage</description>
>> >> > </rule>
>> >> >
>> >> > To test that this is working I then created this rule:
>> >> >
>> >> > <rule id="100075" level="7" ignore="7200">
>> >> >    <if_sid>530</if_sid>
>> >> >    <match>ossec: output: 'mem-usage':</match>
>> >> >    <regex>^1|^2|^3|^4|^5|^6|^7</regex>
>> >> >    <description>Test Memory Usage</description>
>> >> > </rule>
>> >> >
>> >> > I left it running for a few days and I see no alerts. Any idea how to
>> >> > fix this please?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Turn on the log all option on the server and provide us with a sample
>> >> log
>> >> message.
>> >>
>> >> > Thanks.
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