Splunk® Supported Add-ons

Splunk Add-on for OSSEC

Source types for the Splunk Add-on for OSSEC

The Splunk Add-on for OSSEC expects the source type ossec for all incoming alert event data. The add-on currently supports data from the following sources:

  • File Integrity Management (FIM) data
  • FTP data
  • su data
  • ssh data
  • Windows data, including audit and logon information

The following event types map the OSSEC data to the Splunk Common Information Model.

Source type Event type Description CIM data models
ossec ossec_alert All OSSEC data collected with this add-on maps to this event type.
ossec_file_integrity_monitoring OSSEC data with the field change_type set to "filesystem".
ossec_authentication OSSEC data with the field change_type set to "authentication". Authentication
ossec_alert_tagged Ossec rule id "11","501","504","510","512","533","555","1002","2502","5706" are mapped to this eventtype Alerts
ossec_endpoint_file_integrity_monitoring Ossec rule id "550","551","552","553","554","594","595","596" are mapped to this eventtype Endpoint
ossec_endpoint_service Ossec rule id "502","18103","18147" are mapped to this eventtype Endpoint
ossec_audit_change Ossec rules id "593","18145","2932","2933","2934","5303","5304","5555","5901","5902" are mapped to this event type Change
ossec_network_session_start Ossec rule id "11201" is mapped to this eventtype Network Sessions
ossec_network_session_end Ossec rule id "18153" & "18105" are mapped to this eventtype Endpoint
ossec_change Ossec rule ids "580","581","592" are mapped to this eventtype Change
ossec_authentication_privileged Ossec rule ids "5302","5403","5501" are mapped to this eventtype Authentication
Last modified on 21 July, 2021
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Supported Add-ons: released


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