On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:33 AM, James Siegel <[email protected]> wrote:
> We would like to be able to make changes to the syscheck database.
>
> Is there an api for this? Has anyone else tried?
>
> We knowingly make changes to hundreds of files at a time in our systems.
> These cause a flurry of alerts. We do not want to ignore/exclude those
> portions of our environment. We still want to monitor them.
>
> We would however like to be able to insert into the syscheck DB the current
> md5sums as the most recent and clear the counters so that it does not alert.
>
> Situation: We have a system that pushes hotfixes out to make approved
> changes. Currently we get hundreds of alerts.
>
> Proposed fix: During that hotfix process, go in and set the previous and
> current md5sums on those files to matching values, clear the counter to 0.
>
> Hopefully this would prevent the alert of a "known, approved, good" change
> on a file.
>

We don't have anything to support that, but it's a text file, so it
should be easyish to parse.

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