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MARS loses data from windows event (via snare)

randytoni
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Snare agent on win2k3 box is sending syslog for an error 1000 (semaphore) - confirmed this is what WIndows is logging and Snare is capturing.

Event ID 1000

Description:

Faulting application w3wp.exe, version 6.0.3790.3959, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x01dd5c80.

When the event is parsed on MARS (4.3.6) the descriptive text from the event is lost (instead I get the binary values from the data field) - e.g.

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 77 33 77

0018: 70 2e 65 78 65 20 36 2e

0020: 30 2e 33 37 39 30 2e 33

0028: 39 35 39 20 69 6e 20 75

0030: 6e 6b 6e 6f 77 6e 20 30

0038: 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30 20 61

0040: 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65 74

0048: 20 30 31 64 64 35 63 38

0050: 30

This seems to be specific to this event - others are parsed properly on the MARS box (aside from some being truncated, which is another issue)

Anyone seen this? Any help appreciated...

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randytoni
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sorry - further investigation - many syslogs are parsed into oblbivion - doesn't seem to be a pattern - just get a lot of garbage in an assortment of the logs by the time they're displayed on MARS

is there something in the way other windows apps write to the event log that messes up the MARS parser(s)...? Seems to be fine for the "standard" O/S events but things like the semaphore event + many others seem to be getting butchered

am i missing something here?

thanks

-randy