Category: OSSEC

OSSEC: How to Install OSSEC Agent and Server on Linux

Ryan Parker Linux, OSSEC, Security March 2, 2020

Each distro needs different packages to compile the code there are pre-made binaries available, Build Dependencies Each distro needs different packages to compile the code Install the appropriate packages for you distro. I’ll update them as I discover them Ubuntu 16-18 apt install -y unzip build-essential zlib1g-dev libsqlite3-dev libpcre2-dev wget unzip make gcc php php-cli
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OSSEC: How to Install the Windows Agent

Ryan Parker Linux, OSSEC, Security, Windows March 2, 2020

Get the windows binary from atomicorp. https://updates.atomicorp.com/channels/ossec/windows/ At the time of writing, the latest is 3.6.0. Download and install the exe. During the installation, you will get an error. Ignore it. Next, we need to download the libpcre2-8-0.dll from the git-sdk-64 Github page in mingw32/bin/libpcre2-8-0.dll and stick it in the osscec-agent folder at C:\Program
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