On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Chris Decker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Victor,
>
> I'm at the point where my agents all have valid keys, so I'm unsure as to
> why I have ~ 750 clients and only ~225 are reported as "active" at any one
> time (all of the machines are alive and well, and generating mountains of
> log data  :)).  I wanted to give tcp communication a shot, but it appears
> that <protocol> isn't valid within the client tag:
>
> 2016/12/13 09:05:49 ossec-config(1230): ERROR: Invalid element in the
> configuration: 'protocol'.
>
> 2016/12/13 09:05:49 ossec-config(1202): ERROR: Configuration error at
> '/var/ossec/etc/ossec.conf'. Exiting.
>
> 2016/12/13 09:05:49 ossec-agentd(1215): ERROR: No client configured.
> Exiting.
>
>
> The documentation also doesn't make it appear that <protocol> is an option
> there:
>
> http://ossec.github.io/docs/syntax/head_ossec_config.client.html
>

I believe that's a wazuh extension.

>
> Is there something I am missing?
>
>
>
> On Friday, December 9, 2016 at 6:42:27 AM UTC-5, Victor Fernandez wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Agents should send a keepalive each 10 minutes (600 seconds) by default,
>> and this should be enough. But you can go down that time at the agent's
>> ossec.conf:
>>
>>
>> <ossec_config>
>>    <client>
>>       <server-ip>1.2.3.4</server-ip>
>>       <notify_time>60</notify_time>
>>    </client>
>>
>>
>> If you see any agent disconnected, check its ossec.log file.
>>
>> On the other hand, as Dan says, the manager will discard two identical
>> consecutive messages, so you should generate different messages for the logs
>> (using a random string or the date).
>>
>> If you think that there could be network congestion, you may try to
>> connect using TCP, adding, at the agent's ossec.conf:
>>
>> <ossec_config>
>>    <client>
>>       <server-ip>1.2.3.4</server-ip>
>>       <protocol>tcp</protocol>
>>    </client>
>>
>> And, on the manager's ossec.conf:
>>
>> <ossec_config>
>>   <remote>
>>     <connection>secure</connection>
>>     <protocol>tcp</protocol>
>>   </remote>
>>
>>
>> Please test it and write back to us if this doesn't solve the problem. All
>> feedback is welcome.
>>
>> Hope it helps.
>> Best regards.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, December 9, 2016 at 6:30:08 AM UTC+1, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 8, 2016 4:41 PM, "Chris Decker" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I have an OSSEC instance (running the latest/greatest Wuzuh code cloned
>>> from GitHub) that has about 1k active hosts.  I've noticed recently that
>>> hosts are flipping back and forth between Active and Disconnected.
>>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps the manager is too busy? I can't remember the host limit offhand,
>>> but I believe ossec limits the number of agents to a number smaller than
>>> 1000.
>>>
>>>
>>> I've also noticed that not all of the log messages from "Active" hosts
>>> are being received by the Manager.  For example, I have an agent that
>>> generates the same log message every second.  I have debug enabled on the
>>> Agent and I can see logcollector reading each message, but only some of the
>>> messages are received on the Manager (I monitored it for awhile and it's not
>>> that the messages show up later due to network congestion--I don't see the
>>> messages ever being received).  I tried disabling the agent ID checks on
>>> both the Manager and Agent but that didn't have any impact.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ossec will discard some repeated messages. I forget the timeframe offhand
>>> though.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I suspect there is a misconfiguration or limit I am running into on my
>>> Manager running RHEL 7, but I haven't been able to track it down.  I did a
>>> simple netcat test between the same two hosts and there was no lag in
>>> transmissions.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions/thoughts from the community?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris
>>>
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