On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Eddi Bento <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm trying to set up a proof of concept for OSSEC.  It's all set up and
> monitoring a few computers, but I can't seem to get the agent.conf file to
> push.  Originally, I was told to copy the ossec.conf file on the Manager and
> remove the Global entries on it.  Since then, I've completely killed the
> file and created an empty agent.conf that has the following:
>
> <agent_config name="agent01">
>     <localfile>
>         <location>C:\OSSEC-Test\something.log</location>
>         <log_format>syslog</log_format>
>     </localfile>
> </agent_config>
>
> This is only line as I want to get this one file monitored first before I
> continue.  I save this file and restart OSSEC.
>
> When I run:
>
> agent_control -i 002
>
> (where 002 is the AgentID for agent01)
>
> ..it never updates the MD5 Checksum of this file next to Client Version:
> OSSEC HIDS v2.9.2
>
> Does anyone have an idea on what I'm doing wrong?  Is there an place where I
> can see in the log that the agent.conf push fails?
>

Check permission/ownership in the /var/ossec/etc/shared directory.
Check the md5 of the /var/ossec/etc/shared/merged.mg file, see if they
match. If they do there is probably a permissions issue preventing it
from being unpacked properly.
If you turn on debug there might be some logs about it, but not sure.

> Regards,
> Eddi
>
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