I like this thread. Has anyone written any rules that just sit and report 
hardware changes, the new program installed I already have.


On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 4:17:23 PM UTC-4, Weezel wrote:
>
> Has anyone used OSSEC for software inventory?  I'd like to:
>
> a) Be able to compile a list of systems that have a certain package 
> installed (which I am content to do with script-foo on the server).
> b) Be informed via syslog or email of (un)installations of packages.
>
> My initial attempt (on Redhat and clones) has been to use process 
> monitoring on the "rpm -qa | sort" command periodically along check_diff to 
> alert on changes.  For some systems, especially desktops that can have 
> thousands of installed packages in our environment, it seems that there are 
> too many characters are being returned by the rpm command and output is 
> getting truncated, and changes to packages that sort closer to the end of 
> the alphabet are being missed.
>
> Is there an easier way to go about this?
>
> Here's where I was getting my notes on process monitoring from: hxxp://
> www.ossec.net/doc/manual/monitoring/process-monitoring.html
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Weezel
>

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