ossec-control

The ossec-control script is used to start, stop, configure, or check on the status of Wazuh processes. This script can enable or disable client-syslog, database logging, agentless configurations, integration with slack and pagerduty, and debug mode.

Note

We recommend to use the systemctl or service commands (depending on your OS) to start, stop or restart the Wazuh service. This will avoid inconsistencies between the service status and the processes status.

start

Start the Wazuh processes.

stop

Stop the Wazuh processes.

restart

Restart the Wazuh processes.

reload

Restart all Wazuh processes except ossec-execd.

This allows an agent to reload without losing active response status.

This option is not available on a local Wazuh installation.

status

Determine which Wazuh processes are running.

enable

debug

Run all Wazuh daemons in debug mode.

disable

debug

Turn off debug mode.

Note

To use the database option, Database support must be compiled in during initial installation.