On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:04 AM, Ole Jakob Skjelten <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually, turns out, if you use a singe <disabled>yes</disabled> for ANY
> active response, it disables ALL of them. This is intended but not reflected
> in the documentation (why this is considered a good idea I do not
> understand, but I'm sure there is a really good reason ;) ).
>

This is documented here:
https://ossec.github.io/docs/syntax/head_ossec_config.active-response.html?highlight=disabled#element-disabled

> Hope this helps someone else.
>
> On Thursday, September 8, 2016 at 4:59:26 PM UTC+2, Ole Jakob Skjelten
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Having fiddled perhaps a bit too much with the setup of OSSEC, my active
>> responses on my server stopped working last night, and I'm unable to
>> pinpoint the problem.I unfortunately, even with debug enabled, see any
>> errors in ossec.log, and I'm quite unsure how to go about debugging this.
>>
>> If I, on the server look at the available active responses I get this:
>>
>> > agent_control -L
>> OSSEC HIDS agent_control. Available active responses:
>> Response name: notify-pushbullet0, command: notify-pushbullet.py
>> Response name: firewall-honeypot0, command: firewall-honeypot.sh
>> Response name: firewall-permaban0, command: firewall-permaban.sh
>>
>> So far, so good.
>>
>> Looking at my list of active agents I get:
>> > agent_control -l
>> OSSEC HIDS agent_control.
>>  List of available agents: ID: 000, Name: ShadowBUNT (server), IP:
>> 127.0.0.1, Active/Local
>>      ...
>>      ...
>>
>> Now, if I try to trigger an active response on the server, everything
>> looks fine:
>> agent_control -u 000 -f notify-pushbullet0 -b 192.168.1.1
>> OSSEC HIDS agent_control: Running active response 'notify-pushbullet0' on:
>> 000
>>
>> However, nothing shows up in /var/ossec/logs/active-responses.log. And
>> when I look at ossec.log, I find this one:
>> 2016/09/08 16:25:02 ossec-remoted(1320): ERROR: Agent '000' not found.
>>
>> One possible explanation is that I reinstalled OSSEC and copied over my
>> old config, but I suspect I didn't do it 100%, as I had to re-add all the
>> agents. Since the server/agent doesn't have the option to remove/add/insert
>> key/get key however, I didn't do anything with it. As far as I can tell, all
>> other functionality is fine, including alerts. Though I notice that alerts
>> on the server are listed with location "localhost" instead of "ShadowBUNT",
>> which is the server name. I don't know if that's important.
>>
>> Since I rather not do another complete reinstall, I was hoping someone
>> might know how I can fix this...
>>
>>
>> OJ
>>
>> .
>>
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