Something I forgot to put in the original email, this is an RHEL7 VM, Linux 
xxxxxx.xxxxxx.unm.edu 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Sep 9 03:55:24 
EDT 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

On Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 6:41:01 AM UTC-6, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Oh Ar <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > When I try to start the agent, I get a message that the logcollector 
> module 
> > has failed. 
> > 
> > 2017/09/22 14:52:01 ossec-logcollector: Remote commands are not accepted 
> > from the manager. Ignoring it on the agent.conf 
> > 2017/09/22 14:52:01 ossec-logcollector(1202): ERROR: Configuration error 
> at 
> > '/var/ossec/ossec-agent/etc/shared/agent.conf'. Exiting. 
> > 
> > This only happens when I have commands in the localfile section of the 
> > agent.conf file, i.e.: 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >   <localfile> 
> >     <log_format>full_command</log_format> 
> >     <command>netstat -tan |grep LISTEN |grep -v 127.0.0.1 | 
> sort</command> 
> >     <frequency>360</frequency> 
> >   </localfile> 
> > 
> > 
> > When I take these out of the agent.conf file, the error goes away, but 
> from 
> > reading the manual, it seems like I should be able to run these 
> commands. 
> > 
>
> Did you set "logcollector.remote_commands" to 1 in agent's 
> "ossec/etc/local_internal_options.conf"? If this is set to 0 (the 
> default), remote commands are not accepted by the agent. 
>

That solved the problem.  It seems odd that the default settings cause 
errors, but, oh well.
 

> > Another problem I'm having is that when I try to restart the agent, I 
> get 
> > the following set of messages: 
> > 
> > 2017/09/22 14:52:01 ossec-syscheckd: WARN: Syscheck disabled. 
> > 2017/09/22 14:52:01 rootcheck: Rootcheck disabled. Exiting. 
> > 2017/09/22 14:52:01 ossec-syscheckd: WARN: Rootcheck module disabled. 
> > 
> > And I haven't had any luck with Google to find a solution. Every hit for 
> > that phrase I've come up with has been for people who want to turn 
> syscheck 
> > off, not people who were having trouble turning it on. 
> > 
>
> Do you have any <directories> defined in the agent's ossec.conf? I 
> can't think of any other way to disable syscheck. 
>

Actually, I found that there is an option for turning rootcheck and 
syscheck off, which was set to do so.  Again, weird default behaviour.

But from the way <directories> sounds, would I be correct in guessing that 
if I don't configure those, I won't actually be rootchecking or syschecking 
anything?  Do you have any documentation that says how to configure it?  
The page on ossec.conf doesn't mention a directories option.
 

> > Lastly, I'm getting an email from the system every hour that has 
> messages 
> > from every few seconds of the format: 
> > OSSEC HIDS Notification. 
> > 2017 Sep 22 14:41:01 
> > 
> > Received From: (avtest) 
> > 10.234.199.51->/var/ossec/logs/alerts/alerts.log|(avtest) 
> > 10.234.199.51->/var/ossec/logs/alerts/alerts.log|(avtest) 
> > 10.234.199.51->/var/ossec/logs/alerts/alerts.log|(avtest) 
> > 10.234.199.51->/var/ossec/logs/alerts/alerts.log|(avtest) 10.234.199.51 
> > Rule: 503 fired (level 3) -> "Ossec agent started." 
> > Portion of the log(s): 
> > 
> > ossec: Agent started: 'avtest->10.234.199.51'. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --END OF NOTIFICATION 
> > 
> > I don't know why it's telling me that the agent has started every 5 
> seconds 
> > or so, unless the agent is restarting every 5 seconds or so. And if the 
> > agent is restarting every 5 seconds or so, I want to make it *stop*. :D 
> > 
>
> Never seen that issue, you can check the agent's ossec.log for clues 
> as to what is happening. 
>


Sadly, no clues there.  If it really is restarting every 5 seconds, it's 
not logging it. 

So, where is the log that the emails are generated from?  :)

Thanks in advance,

-Sandro

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