I am trying to install my server from source and want to use the 
pre-packaged client on the agent system. Both the server and the clients 
are running CentOS 6.

So far I installed the server successfully other than remoted doesn't start 
until an agent is registered.

To register the agents with the server I use the following command:

/var/ossec/bin/agent-auth -m 192.168.0.78  -p 1515 -A ossec-client

Once registered I can see the agent on the server:

[root@centos bin]# ./agent_control -l

OSSEC HIDS agent_control. List of available agents:
   ID: 000, Name: ossec.server (server), IP: 127.0.0.1, Active/Local
   ID: 1024, Name: ossec-client, IP: any, Never connected

However I am not able to get the agent to connect. When using the RPM based 
installation of the server the clients connect successfully.

On the client side the logs reports the following messages:

2014/11/05 15:00:39 ossec-agentd: INFO: Using IPv4 for: 192.168.0.78 .
2014/11/05 15:00:40 ossec-agentd(1403): ERROR: Incorrectly formated message 
from 'any'.
2014/11/05 15:00:40 ossec-agentd(1214): WARN: Problem receiving message 
from 192.168.0.78.
2014/11/05 15:00:49 ossec-agentd(1403): ERROR: Incorrectly formated message 
from 'any'.
2014/11/05 15:00:49 ossec-agentd(1214): WARN: Problem receiving message 
from 192.168.0.78.
2014/11/05 15:00:54 ossec-agentd(1403): ERROR: Incorrectly formated message 
from 'any'.
2014/11/05 15:00:54 ossec-agentd(1214): WARN: Problem receiving message 
from 192.168.0.78.
2014/11/05 15:01:00 ossec-agentd(1403): ERROR: Incorrectly formated message 
from 'any'.
2014/11/05 15:01:00 ossec-agentd(1214): WARN: Problem receiving message 
from 192.168.0.78.
2014/11/05 15:01:00 ossec-agentd(4101): WARN: Waiting for server reply (not 
started). Tried: '192.168.0.78'.


The reason I am building the server from source is to increase the number 
of agents. During the build process I set the max number of agents to 4096.

[root@localhost src]# make setmaxagents
Specify maximum number of agents: 4096
Maximum number of agents set to 4096






Any suggestion on how I can debug the cause of the communication break down 
between the server and client further. 

Thanks in advance

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