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Old 08-09-2019
Connection Logging in Solaris 10 & 11 - Beginner

Excuse my ignorance as I am very new to working with Solaris.

I'm looking for documentation on how to create a network log in Solaris 10 & 11. I don't wish to edit any of the logs currently the system. I simply want a log that will capture all incoming IP addresses and log them with a time-in and time-out. I would write a script to extract that information from an existing log but I can find no logs on the system with the information I require.

I have found plenty of documents explaining logging for Solaris systems but none I can understand at my level of experience.
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Old 08-09-2019
Welcome to the forum. You are in the right place.

Do you have experience of other Unix/Linux systems and are just learning Solaris?
I'm trying to judge the level of help you need.

Solaris comes with standard 'logging' much the same as other OS's but what you asking for in Solaris speak is 'auditing'. You are probably not finding it because you are not searching for that.

Oracle Solaris Audit Quick Start

Tell us what else you need.
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Old 08-09-2019
You might consider netstat and some wrapping code.... if you do not want to dive down too deep. Smilie
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Old 08-09-2019
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Originally Posted by hicksd8
Welcome to the forum. You are in the right place.

Do you have experience of other Unix/Linux systems and are just learning Solaris?
I'm trying to judge the level of help you need.

Solaris comes with standard 'logging' much the same as other OS's but what you asking for in Solaris speak is 'auditing'. You are probably not finding it because you are not searching for that.

Tell us what else you need.

Thank you, it definitely helps to search for the correct terms! So from looking online some, it seems I will need to edit a configuration file to create a new audit. Im having some trouble understanding exactly what everything means just from oracle docs. Now looking for a write-up of how to add another audit. Ideally this audit would create a log that would contain the IP address connecting (incoming only), the time-in, and the time-out. From my understanding this information would be stored in binary. I can convert that to a readable format but hoping there is a way to configure the log to be in readable text (like a tab delimited array).
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Old 08-09-2019
You switch audit policies on/off with auditconfig.

Ref Solaris 10: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01...-18/index.html

Which version of Solaris are you (mainly) using??

Here's the tcpip logging availability Solaris 11:
Logging IP Addresses of All Incoming TCP Connections -
Administering TCP/IP Networks, IPMP, and IP Tunnels in Oracle(R) Solaris 11.2

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Old 08-09-2019
currently the main OS is Solaris 10 but will be working exclusively in Solaris 11 come 2021.


edit:
My sysadmin is telling me all TCP would probably more than I would want. Mainly I want to log all Telnet and SSH connections. Possibly also all FTP connections.

Last edited by FamousAv8er; 08-09-2019 at 02:31 PM..
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Old 09-16-2019
I have still yet to find a direct answer on how I would accomplish my goal of logging all incoming connections (ssh, telnet).
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