Thanks Maarten.   That seems to have disabled it!

On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 5:17:31 AM UTC-8, Maarten Broekman wrote:
>
> Brandon, check the ossec.conf file on that system. You probably have a 
> <localfile> entry in there that is running the netstat command. Just use 
> <!-- and --> to comment that block and restart ossec. Assuming that 
> configuration is only managed on that server (i.e. you don't have Puppet or 
> some other configuration management tool handling it), that will stop Ossec 
> from running it.
>
> --Maarten
>
> On Thursday, November 9, 2017 at 7:03:44 PM UTC-5, Brandon S wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way to disable all use of netstat by ossec agent on 
>> a single server?   
>>
>> I have a server that has ossec agent on that netstat is using excessive 
>> CPU due to the high connections and large netstat output.
>>
>> I already tried disabling rootcheck in /var/ossec/etc/ossec.conf
>>
>> I still see ossec agent running netstat when rootcheck is confirmed 
>> disabled.
>>
>> [root@server ~]# ps aux|grep netstat
>> root      2771  0.0  0.0 106076  1292 ?        S    23:53   0:00 sh -c 
>> netstat -tulpen | sort
>> root      2772 22.7  0.0 105400  1068 ?        R    23:53   0:03 netstat 
>> -tulpen
>> root      2807  0.0  0.0 103320   908 pts/1    S+   23:53   0:00 grep 
>> netstat
>> [root@server ~]#
>>
>

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