Finally - someone else is having the same problem -- 

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ossec-list/qwdbTHXAIwg/pDYWz9x7U8UJ

Now I can go try and fix it..

THANK YOU!
~J

On Thursday, March 6, 2014 6:24:29 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Curiouser and curiouser: when the message comes from a remote host, the 
> hostname contains something like "(secure-test.foo.com) 
> 192.168.1.1->/var/log/secure" rather than simply "secure-test.foo.com". 
> Based on a comment in the source code (in 
> ossec-hids-2.7/src/analysisd/cleanevent.c), it looks like this may be 
> what's supposed to happen:
>
>
>     /* Every message must be in the format
>      * hostname->location or
>      * (agent) ip->location.
>      */
>
>
>     /* Setting hostname for local messages */
>     if(lf->location[0] == '(')
>     {
>         /* Messages from an agent */
>         lf->hostname = lf->location;
>     }
>     else if(lf->hostname == NULL)
>     {
>         lf->hostname = __shost;
>     }
>
>
> Changing the hostnames in the list to match seems to have gotten things 
> working. 
>

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