Do I need to leave those rule ID's as they were?  I'm guessing overwrite 
means that they overrule the other rule's with the same ID's?

On Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 4:34:03 PM UTC-6, Cooper wrote:
>
> Well that helped with the duplicate rule errors, so thank you for that!  
> Now I am getting an overwrite rule error:
>
> 2018/04/05 17:30:17 ossec-analysisd: Overwrite rule '120028' not found.
> 2018/04/05 17:30:17 ossec-testrule(1220): ERROR: Error loading the rules: 
> 'local_rules.xml'.
>
> Here is the rule it is referencing (there are several after it that I'm 
> sure will error out as well):
>
> <group name="local,syslog,">
>   <rule id="120028" level="0" overwrite="yes">
>     <decoded_as>ar_log</decoded_as>
>     <description>Active Response Custom Messages Grouped</description>
>     <group>active_response,</group>
>   </rule>
>
>
> On Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 2:00:22 PM UTC-6, Cooper wrote:
>>
>> Oh interesting! I assumed it was "unique" to that rule file. I'll try 
>> re-IDing them and see what happens. 
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 1:36 PM dan (ddp) <ddp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Cooper
>>> > Here's the rule from the error:
>>> >
>>> > <group name="syslog,access_control,">
>>> >   <rule id="2501" level="0">
>>> >     <match> esm</match>
>>> >     <group>authentication_failed,</group>
>>> >     <description>User authentication failure.</description>
>>> >   </rule>
>>> > </group>
>>> >
>>> > If I comment it out, it just says the next rule is a duplicate, and so 
>>> on
>>> > and so on.  None are overwrite rules.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Here's rule 2501 in OSSEC
>>> (
>>> https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/blob/master/etc/rules/syslog_rules.xml#L130
>>> ):
>>> <group name="syslog,access_control,">
>>>   <rule id="2501" level="5">
>>>   <match>FAILED LOGIN |authentication failure|</match>
>>>   <match>Authentication failed for|invalid password for|</match>
>>>   <match>LOGIN FAILURE|auth failure: |authentication error|</match>
>>>   <match>authinternal failed|Failed to authorize|</match>
>>>   <match>Wrong password given for|login failed|Auth: Login 
>>> incorrect|</match>
>>>   <match>Failed to authenticate user</match>
>>>   <group>authentication_failed,</group>
>>>   <description>User authentication failure.</description>
>>> </rule>
>>>
>>> So it looks like the custom rules implemented in your environment are
>>> using the ID ranges used by the project.
>>> I think rule id 100000+ are reserved for custom rules.
>>> Anything below that could be used by the project at any time, possibly
>>> conflicting with custom rules using the wrong ranges.
>>>
>>> > On Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 4:04:56 AM UTC-6, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 8:56 PM Cooper <coope...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Sorry Dan, I'm horribly new to managing ossec (yesterday).  How 
>>> would I
>>> >>> know that?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Look for 'overwrite="yes"' in the rule.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 6:54:14 PM UTC-6, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 8:50 PM Cooper <coope...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> When trying to start our new 2.9.3 ossec server, i receive the
>>> >>>>> following error:
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> 2018/04/04 19:45:39 ossec-analysisd: Duplicate rule ID:2501
>>> >>>>> 2018/04/04 19:45:39 ossec-testrule(1220): ERROR: Error loading the
>>> >>>>> rules: 'local_rules.xml'.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> However, inside local_rules, there's only one rule with an ID of 
>>> 2501.
>>> >>>>> If I comment out that rule, it just says that the next rule is a 
>>> duplicate.
>>> >>>>> These rules are being migrated from a working 2.7.2 install.  
>>> Anyone run
>>> >>>>> into this before?
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Are these overwrite rules?
>>> >>>>
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