Just a note, I have had /var/ossec/etc/shared/agent.conf go from having 
content back to being blank a number of times here without having any 
interaction on the server. Has anyone else experienced this?

On Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 12:38:44 PM UTC-5, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:25 PM,  <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Hello All, 
> > 
> > I am currently working on a central ossec.conf file which contains our 
> > Windows and Linux configurations for all clients. Here are a few 
> background 
> > details: 
> > 
> > 1. We currently only have a few Linux deployments and roughly 6 Windows 
> > deployments as a POC 
> > 2. All clients have a custom config, specific to Windows or Linux 
> > 
> > Now, I'd like to manage clients going forward with a central config file 
> > using agent.conf within /var/ossec/etc/shared. I've followed these 
> steps: 
> > 
> > 1.Created an agent.conf file, and ran verify-agent-conf without any 
> issues. 
> > 2. Ran MD5SUM against the agent.conf and noted hash 
> > 3. Ran agent-control -R <ID> against a few clients 
> > 4. Ran agent-control -i <ID> and verified that the MD5 changed to match 
> the 
> > agent.conf hash 
> > 5. I review the agent.conf file on a Windows client that had updated and 
> it 
> > is blank 
> > 6. I review the merged.mg file on the same client and I do see within 
> the 
> > file that the custom agent.conf from the server is present 
> > 7. I go back to the /var/ossec/etc/shared/agent.conf and now see that it 
> is 
> > completely blank with a different MD5 
> > 
> > Can anyone explain why the agent.conf on the server would have the 
> content 
> > removed? My guess is that if the client doesn't have this info in the 
> > agent.conf that it is only reading their local ossec.conf file? 
> > 
> > As a side note, do I need to re-deploy a new ossec.conf to clients out 
> there 
> > with only the server IP configuration or will OSSEC merge the config 
> with 
> > the agent.conf on the server? 
> > 
>
> There shouldn't be anything in ossec that will blank the agent.conf on 
> the server. 
> If there is no agent.conf, the agent will use the ossec.conf. 
> The running configuration merges the ossec.conf and agent.conf. 
>
> > Thanks all for the help! 
> > 
> > Eric 
> > 
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