OS Change Management Auditing using Nagios?

[Kevin Keane]

I am not using Nagios for that purpose, but rather Open-Audit. I believe 
there is a way to have changes in OA propagate to Nagios.

Another tool you may want to look into is tripwire; it generates exactly 
the logs based on changes that you were looking for. Then use the 
check_log plugin to monitor the tripwire log file.

The biggest concern with this type of tool that I would have is that 
monitoring OS changes is very labor-intensive. For me, to the point of 
impracticality. The problem is the sheer volume of patches that come out 
on a regular basis makes it all but impossible to keep up with. You'd 
have to look at every single patch and find out which files it changes 
before you have a way of knowing whether a particular tripwire alert is 
legitimate or not.

Ken Netzorg wrote:
> Is anyone leveraging Nagios for notification of changes done to 
> operating systems?
>
> I am looking to deploy a solution that monitors OS changes and 
> generates alerts when a configuration or file change is made. Is 
> anyone doing this type of thing through a Nagios plug-in? My goal 
> would be to know when an OS is being changed and be able to correlate 
> that to a scheduled change or potential compromise of the OS that 
> needs to be further investigated. (Something more holistic than basic 
> log monitoring unless there is a service that generates logs based on 
> changes that will then be captured by a log review.)
>
> The monitoring would be done on both Windows and Linux platforms.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken

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