Yes, and no. Let's say there is one level 10 alert. The subject will have
this in the text. And the email will have it in the body, but only if it
has happened so many minutes before the email was sent. If the event
happened at 10:58 AM and the email was sent on the hour at 11:00 AM, it
will more than likely be included. But if the event happened at 10:05AM and
the email was sent at 11:00AM then it won't be included. And even if there
are lots of any level alerts being sensed, only a certain number in the
last so many minutes are in the email. Let me give an example. Now maybe
I'm looking at this wrong so please enlighten me. If I look at the email
sent last night at 06:00 PM, or 18:00, in the subject of the email is
"Alert level 10", but that alert is no where in the body of the email.
There are 321 notifications with the earliest being at 17:55:42. There is
nothing dated before that. If I go look at the alerts.log file from
yesterday, there is an entry in there for a level 10 alert on a host at
17:17:28. In total there are 4634 alerts in the file, mostly level 2, but
only 321 in the email. The earliest one is at 17:00:05.

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 9:42 AM, dan (ddp) <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Ed Killian <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I'm running on CentOS 7.3.1611 and using the atomic repo which has
> > ossec-hids-2.9.2-2082 and ossec-hids-server-2.9.2-2082.
> > I have done debugging and I'm seeing some things I think are strange.
> > If the condition I'm testing for has happened in the last 15 to 20
> minutes
> > before the
> > email is sent, the subject contains the alert message and the body
> contains
> > the
> > alert message along with other alerts. If the condition is more than 25
> to
> > 30 minutes
> > before the email is sent, the subject will still show the alert, but the
> > alert message will
> > not be in the body of the email. Here are some stats from the emails
> today:
> >
>
> Basically, the subject and body don't match?
>
> > Email            Number         Earliest reported
> > Arrived          of alerts         alert
> > 01:00             109               00:36
> > 02:00             110                01:37
> > 03:00             111                02:34
> > 04:00             112                03:39
> > 05:00             113                04:34
> > 06:00             114                05:39
> > 07:00             115                06:36
> > 08:00             116                07:51
> > 09:00             117                08:55
> > 10:00             118                09:56
> >
> > It seems strange that the number of alerts is incrementing by one each
> hour.
> > I went back further in the emails and it seems to increment to 186 and
> then
> > start over at 97.
> >
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