On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Tim Boyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> We've got an instance that we're finally ready to go with Active Response
> on.  2.8, running on a RHEL6 server.
>
> Vanilla OSSEC works great; emails us alerts:
>
>   <global>
>     <email_notification>yes</email_notification>
>     <email_to>[email protected]</email_to>
>     <smtp_server>localhost</smtp_server>
>     <email_from>[email protected]</email_from>
>     <white_list>10.127.70.130</white_list>
>   </global>
>
>   <email_alerts>
>     <email_to>[email protected]</email_to>
>     <level>5</level>
>     <do_not_group />
>   </email_alerts>
>
> So for active response, I've done the usual active response stuff, and it
> works great!  Test by brute ssh; puts an entry into the log, and slams
> iptables shut.
>
> <rule id="100002" level="3">
>         <decoded_as>ar_log</decoded_as>
>         <options>alert_by_email</options>
>         <group>active_response_notification</group>
>         <action>firewall-drop.sh</action>
>         <status>add</status>
>         <description>Active response firewall-drop.sh was run, host
> blocked</description>
> </rule>
>

When you use ossec-logtest, do the sample log messages trigger this alert?

> Except... no email alert, to anyone.  I tried the obvious and set the level
> to "14" - still no alert.
>
> Now, the only weird thing I noticed in the alerts.log was this:
>
> ** Alert 1409231362.174249: -
> ossec,active_response,ative_response_notification
> 2014 Aug 28 09:09:22 (roosevelt)
> 10.127.72.105->/var/ossec/logs/active-responses.log
> Rule: 601 (level 3) -> 'Host Blocked by firewall-drop.sh Active Response'
> Src IP: 10.127.72.107
> Thu Aug 28 09:09:20 EDT 2014 /var/ossec/active-response/bin/firewall-drop.sh
> add - 10.127.72.107 1409231360.173267 5712
>
> Note the 'ative_response_notification'.  ative, not active, but I don't know
> if this could be doing it.
>

I don't see anything off hand.
`grep ative_response /var/ossec/etc/*; `grep ative_response /var/ossec/rules/*`

> Suggestions appreciated...
>
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