Thanks Victor. I found an AR with <agent_id></agent_id>.  Its been like 
that for a while, so apparently we had a server fire on the rule related. 
 I removed the AR because its no longer being used, which is why the 
agent_id was empty. 

On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 1:27:19 PM UTC-5, Victor Fernandez wrote:
>
> Hi Brian.
>
> It seems to be an Active Response issue. This message appears when AR 
> fails to find the name of the agent among the registered agents. But the 
> log should show the name of the agent, and it doesn't appear in the 
> message. The problem isn't related to the network.
>
> Could you find the alert that triggers this AR? If you can do that, find 
> the name of the agent in the alert and make sure that this agent is 
> properly registered (i.e. with the program manage_agents).
>
> Remoted saves the source IP of an agent when it receives a message. This 
> is important, particularly if the agent is registered with "any" IP. In 
> order to log the source IP you need to write the code into file 
> src/remoted/secure.c. But if you registered the agent with an IP other 
> than "any", then the source IP will always match the registered IP.
>
> I think that there is an issue when analysisd sends an active response to 
> remoted.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Victor Fernandez.
>
>
> On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 8:03:46 AM UTC-7, BP9906 wrote:
>>
>> I'm facing an odd issue where we have some server partially configured 
>> (dont ask) and so as a result the ossec server logs this every one in a 
>> while.
>>
>> 2016/07/07 05:13:25 ossec-remoted(1320): ERROR: Agent '' not found.
>>
>>
>> I've enabled iptables logging, searched through all servers in those time 
>> periods and found nothing. 
>>
>>
>> I'm wondering how I can add a source IP address to the remoted logging? 
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your help
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>

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