Realtime monitoring seems to be working now that I've adjusted the scan frequency. Earlier the scan frequency was 4 hours, then 10 minutes. It's now 20 minutes and realtime now seems to work. I don't claim it makes sense, it's just what I'm observing.
Ok I've discovered that the config doesn't like this line. I modified it to reflect one of the others and it works. <directories check_all="yes" report_changes="yes" realtime="yes">C:\TestOSS3</directories> And, I've realized it's also including multiple alerts in one email. I'd rather have one email per alert, at least a way to configure it. But I get this reduces the count of emails. On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 11:06:53 AM UTC-7, Matt wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed OSSEC in the Azure space, HIDS seems ok but FIM isn't > behaving consistently. > > First realtime monitoring simply isn't working. FIM only seem to work when > the scan runs, which I have set to 10 minutes for testing. Second I only > seem to get a fraction of the changes I've made. For testing I have 4 > folder, and I make 2 changes in each folder, usually an edit and a delete > and/or add. I just did that 2 time sin the last hour, so 16 changes, and I > received only alerts for 3 of those changes. > > The OSSEC Manager server is CentOS, the agent is Windows Server 2012 R2. > The agent does say "INFO: Real time file monitoring started.". > > Following are the configs for the manager server and the agent server. Is > there something I am missing? > > Manager > > <ossec_config> > <global> > <email_notification>yes</email_notification> > <email_maxperhour>500</email_maxperhour> > <email_to>redac...@redacted.com</email_to> > <smtp_server>redacted.redacted.com</smtp_server> > <email_from>redac...@redacted.com</email_from> > <logall>yes</logall> > </global> > > Agent, yes the lines are intentionally each a little different for the > directories to monitor while fiddling with this. If one is wrong please let > me know. > > <!-- Syscheck - Integrity Checking config. --> > <syscheck> > > <!-- Default frequency, every 20 hours. It doesn't need to be higher > - on most systems and one a day should be enough. > --> > <frequency>600</frequency> > <alert_new_files>yes</alert_new_files> > <auto_ignore>no</auto_ignore> > <!-- By default it is disabled. In the Install you must choose > - to enable it. > --> > <disabled>no</disabled> > > <directories check_all="yes" realtime="yes">C:\TestOSS1</directories> > <directories realtime="yes" check_all="yes">C:\TestOSS2</directories> > <directories check_all="yes" report_changes="yes" > realtime="yes">C:\TestOSS3</directories> > <directories realtime="yes" report_changes="yes" > check_all="yes">C:\TestOSS4</directories> > > <!-- Default files to be monitored - system32 only. --> > <directories check_all="yes">%WINDIR%/win.ini</directories> > <directories check_all="yes">%WINDIR%/system.ini</directories> > > Thanks, > Matt > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ossec-list" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ossec-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.