Monitoring a local file using OSSEC Integration

In addition to event logs or syslogs, a lot of local files are created by various applications. These files reside on the hosts/servers where applications run and contain wealth of information, valuable for both security and operational intelligence. The application logs are useful for debugging or capturing run time errors/exception or even business opportunities in production production environments. It is imperative to monitor local files for gaining actionable insights, real time alerting, correlations and forensic debugging.

KHIKA integrates closely with OSSEC to monitor application logs in real time. This section explains how to use OSSEC to monitor the application logs. We begin with broad level steps and then dive deep into each step so that we explain the methodology and the intricate details associated with it. At a broad level you perform following steps

Install an OSSEC Agent on the end node.

Please refer the appropriate section sections on Linux or Windows for installing the OSSEC Agent.