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Step 1) Upgrade to a CVS snapshot (1.99 or higher)
 
Step 1) Upgrade to a CVS snapshot (1.99 or higher)
   yum --enablerepo=asl-2.0-testing upgrade ossec-hids
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Step 2) Update ASL policy
 
Step 2) Update ASL policy
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Step 6) restart ossec
 
Step 6) restart ossec
 
   /etc/init.d/ossec-hids restart
 
   /etc/init.d/ossec-hids restart
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== Check for file system changes on all agents ==
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This is a quick little script to poll all agents for recent file system changes
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for i in `/var/ossec/bin/syscheck_control -l -s | cut -d "," -f 1`; do echo "For agent $i" ; /var/ossec/bin/syscheck_control -s -i $i | grep "`date +\"%Y %b %d\"`"; done

Revision as of 10:12, 16 March 2009

Contents

Overview

OSSEC is a host based intrusion detection system, it performs numerous local security controls including log analysis, active-response to attacks (shunning), rootkit detection, file integrity checks, and local security policy assessments. Just to name a few. You can read more about OSSEC here: http://www.ossec.net


Announcements

OSSEC 2.0 Final Official 2.0 release has been published to the ASL-2.0 channel

OSSEC 2.0.0-0.090205 test build this update addresses mysql issues mentioned in the troubleshooting section


Troubleshooting

Error: Missing Dependency: libpq.so.3 is needed by package ossec-hids-server

This occurs on CentOS4 systems using the CentOSPlus repository, and updating to OSSEC 2.0. It can be resolved with:


yum install postgresql-devel


Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

This is a known problem in versions of OSSEC 1.6.1 and lower. Currently to fix this an upgrade to a newer version is required:


Step 1) Upgrade to a CVS snapshot (1.99 or higher)

 yum  upgrade ossec-hids

Step 2) Update ASL policy

 asl -s -f

Step 3) Drop the existing tortix database

 mysql -u admin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`
 drop database tortix;

Step 4) Create a new database, and select it

 create database tortix;
 use tortix;
 quit

Step 5) Create the new OSSEC database

 mysql -u admin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` tortix < /var/ossec/etc/mysql/mysql.schema

Step 6) restart ossec

 /etc/init.d/ossec-hids restart


Check for file system changes on all agents

This is a quick little script to poll all agents for recent file system changes

for i in `/var/ossec/bin/syscheck_control -l -s | cut -d "," -f 1`; do echo "For agent $i" ; /var/ossec/bin/syscheck_control -s -i $i | grep "`date +\"%Y %b %d\"`"; done
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