DCS File Integrity Monitoring not detecting file modification
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DCS File Integrity Monitoring not detecting file modification

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Article ID: 238293

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Products

Data Center Security Server Data Center Security Server Advanced

Issue/Introduction

After implement in the Detection policy a rule to monitor a file modification/update, no event (File Watch) is  received.

 

Cause

Rule options for the filewatch rule, not set properly.

 

Resolution

When editing the Detection policy , the filewatch rule is created with some  rule options. One of the rule options for the filewatch rule is the "Search Depth" setting and if set as 1 (default value) , it will search only in path with a depth of 1.

Search Depth indicates the number of directory levels to monitor.

 

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