labels

XML section name

<labels>
</labels>

The labels section of ossec.conf allows additional user-defined information about agents to be included in alerts. When email notifications are enabled, this additional data is also contained in the email alerts without any further configuration.

Options

label

This option specifies the additional information that will appear in alerts. Labels can be nested in JSON formatted alerts by separating the "key" terms by a period.

Attributes:

key

The title that will describe the information of the label.

Allowed value

Any string

hidden

For labels that are hidden by default.

Allowed value

yes

Note

In internal_options.conf, hidden labels can be set to be displayed in alerts.

Example of configuration 

<labels>
  <label key="aws.instance-id">i-052a1838c</label>
  <label key="aws.sec-group">sg-1103</label>
  <label key="network.ip">172.17.0.0</label>
  <label key="network.mac">02:42:ac:11:00:02</label>
  <label key="installation" hidden="yes">January 1st, 2017</label>
</labels>