ossec – .pQd's log

agentless monitoring of linux servers from ossec

2012-07-222012-10-06 by .pQd

we’ve been poking around ossec for a while. it’s nice and all but… i never liked the idea of opening additional ports on the production server or letting it ‘call home’ with alerts to the central monitoring machine. i prefer ‘polling’ model where central server communicates with monitoring nodes. ideally all should be done via ... Read More

ossec-syscheckd(1702): INFO: No directory provided for syscheck to monitor; Segmentation fault

2011-12-28 by .pQd

i’m playing around with ossec 2.6. i’m trying to set up server for agentless monitoring of multiple linux boxes. after installation [where i answered no for most of the question] i’ve run into the following problem: to make things work and not segfault on config generated by the installer i had to modify /opt/ossec/etc/ossec.conf and ... Read More