How to view audit logs in Solaris?


 
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Old 01-17-2013
How to view audit logs in Solaris?

Does anyone know if there is software written to view the audit logs generated by Solaris? I am referring the the logs created by auditd. It produces an unreadable log. I am familiar with auditreduce and praudit, but I am looking for something that produces a report, much like logwatch looks at the system logs and produces a report.
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Old 01-17-2013
Use
Code:
praudit

on files in /var/audit/*
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Old 01-17-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Use
Code:
praudit

on files in /var/audit/*
I believe I said I was already familiar with praudit.
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Old 01-17-2013
my bad. You just named the reporting tools. praudit -x gives you xml output if that is any assistance.

There is snare - SNARE - Auditing and EventLog Management | Free Security & Utilities software downloads at SourceForge.net

It is Windows based - last time I saw it. I have not used it, so I cannot comment.
It reads audit events, as I understand it it.
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Old 01-18-2013
SNARE

Thank you. Never heard of SNARE. I will check it out.

---------- Post updated 01-18-13 at 06:44 PM ---------- Previous update was 01-17-13 at 10:42 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
my bad. You just named the reporting tools. praudit -x gives you xml output if that is any assistance.

There is snare - SNARE - Auditing and EventLog Management | Free Security & Utilities software downloads at SourceForge.net

It is Windows based - last time I saw it. I have not used it, so I cannot comment.
It reads audit events, as I understand it it.
There were several versions. Downloaded and installed it today. This appears to be exactly what I was looking for. I installed the Solaris version and was able to access the server remotely via a browser.
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