Hey there! I think it's actually due to the *remoted.verify_msg_id* option 
in internal_options.conf

Once I turned this off, messages were coming in out of order, but all 
messages were getting received!

On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 5:15:25 AM UTC-4, Pedro S wrote:
>
> Hi Jon,
>
> This is an interesting test, I think we can get a lot of useful 
> information from here.
>
> On my experience probably the bottleneck is on remoted socket/buffer or 
> logcollector speed performance to read each log line.
>
> For Remoted, try to enable debug mode at the agent, internal_options.conf 
> file, remoted.debug=2, and agent.debug=2. You will find at ossec.log each 
> line read by logcollector and sent to remoted, this way we can figure out 
> if the problem is related to gathering/sending or lately 
> receiving/proccesing.
>
> On my tests I can see how everything is being pushed, but just a few 
> events on archives are displayed, I think OSSEC also have some protection 
> for multiple identical messages.
>
> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-agent: DEBUG: Sending message to server: 'test55'
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-logcollector: DEBUG: Reading syslog message: 
>> 'test55'
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-agent: DEBUG: Attempting to send message to 
>> server.
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-agent: DEBUG: Sending message to server: 
>> 'test55'
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-logcollector: DEBUG: Reading syslog message: 
>> 'test55'
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-agent: DEBUG: Attempting to send message to 
>> server.
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-agent: DEBUG: Sending message to server: 
>> 'test55'
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-logcollector: DEBUG: Reading syslog message: 
>> 'test55'
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-agent: DEBUG: Attempting to send message to 
>> server.
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-agent: DEBUG: Sending message to server: 
>> 'test55'
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-logcollector: DEBUG: Reading syslog message: 
>> 'test55'
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-agent: DEBUG: Attempting to send message to 
>> server.
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-agent: DEBUG: Sending message to server: 
>> 'test55'
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-agent: DEBUG: Attempting to send message to 
>> server.
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:39 ossec-agent: DEBUG: Sending message to server: 
>> '--MARK--: '
>> 2016/10/04 11:07:43 ossec-agent: DEBUG: Attempting to send message to 
>> server.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 8:27:04 PM UTC+2, Jon Goodgion wrote:
>>
>> I've been curious about the performance of OSSEC in a server/agent 
>> architecture, so I have been emulating simultaneous events on a single 
>> agent by appending log entries to the agent's syslog.
>>
>> Using a shell script for loop on the agent, I append 25 consecutive logs 
>> that match the format of a telnet failed password log. I figured 25 EPS 
>> should be easily captured by OSSEC.
>>
>> However, on the server, (after enabling logall to archives), it doesn't 
>> seem like it is processing all the logs. 
>> /var/ossec/logs/archives/archives.log shows:
>>
>> 2016 Oct 03 13:53:31 (agent101) 192.168.0.101->/var/log/syslog Oct 1 
>> 14:15:55 queen telnetd[*1*]: refused connect from 81.215.42.24
>>
>> 2016 Oct 03 13:53:31 (agent101) 192.168.0.101->/var/log/syslog Oct 1 
>> 14:15:55 queen telnetd[*13*]: refused connect from 81.215.42.158
>>
>> 2016 Oct 03 13:53:31 (agent101) 192.168.0.101->/var/log/syslog Oct 1 
>> 14:15:55 queen telnetd[14]: refused connect from 81.215.42.69
>>
>> 2016 Oct 03 13:53:31 (agent101) 192.168.0.101->/var/log/syslog Oct 1 
>> 14:15:55 queen telnetd[15]: refused connect from 81.215.42.32
>>
>> 2016 Oct 03 13:53:31 (agent101) 192.168.0.101->/var/log/syslog Oct 1 
>> 14:15:55 queen telnetd[16]: refused connect from 81.215.42.41
>>
>> 2016 Oct 03 13:53:31 (agent101) 192.168.0.101->/var/log/syslog Oct 1 
>> 14:15:55 queen telnetd[17]: refused connect from 81.215.42.74
>>
>> 2016 Oct 03 13:53:31 (agent101) 192.168.0.101->/var/log/syslog Oct 1 
>> 14:15:55 queen telnetd[18]: refused connect from 81.215.42.32
>>
>> 2016 Oct 03 13:53:31 (agent101) 192.168.0.101->/var/log/syslog Oct 1 
>> 14:15:55 queen telnetd[19]: refused connect from 81.215.42.222
>>
>> 2016 Oct 03 13:53:31 (agent101) 192.168.0.101->/var/log/syslog Oct 1 
>> 14:15:55 queen telnetd[20]: refused connect from 81.215.42.25
>>
>> 2016 Oct 03 13:53:31 (agent101) 192.168.0.101->/var/log/syslog Oct 1 
>> 14:15:55 queen telnetd[21]: refused connect from 81.215.42.141
>>
>> 2016 Oct 03 13:53:31 (agent101) 192.168.0.101->/var/log/syslog Oct 1 
>> 14:15:55 queen telnetd[22]: refused connect from 81.215.42.248
>>
>> 2016 Oct 03 13:53:31 (agent101) 192.168.0.101->/var/log/syslog Oct 1 
>> 14:15:55 queen telnetd[23]: refused connect from 81.215.42.45
>>
>> 2016 Oct 03 13:53:31 (agent101) 192.168.0.101->/var/log/syslog Oct 1 
>> 14:15:55 queen telnetd[24]: refused connect from 81.215.42.166
>> 2016 Oct 03 13:53:31 (agent101) 192.168.0.101->/var/log/syslog Oct 1 
>> 14:15:55 queen telnetd[25]: refused connect from 81.215.42.178
>>
>> I put the for loop sequence identifier in the telnetd brackets [ ], and 
>> as you can see, this particular test didn't catch anything between the 2nd 
>> and 12th log.
>>
>> Does this have to do with UDP loss? Am I missing something, or possibly 
>> need to reconfigure OSSEC a certain way? Any help would be greatly 
>> appreciated!
>>
>

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