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Security Audit logging
Hey,

I was wondering if anyone knew of any good tools out there for collecting/viewing/sorting audit data from Solaris (10) and Linux (SUSE and RHE) platforms? I am required by some government standards to audit certain actions on these systems like login and logouts, file access and actions involved in them, among some other things which would provide an audit trail. This currently generates tons of data, but have it filtered down through a script looking for keywords.

However even though its filtered from 1GB to 15MB, its still tough to dig through a 15MB text file for something important as everything starts to look the same.

Does anyone know of any audit tool/gui that helps to sort and track these events? I was looking at EventTracker by Prism, but could not find much other stuff? Anyone have any luck with something else?

Thanks for the help
 
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audit_data

audit_data(4)							   File Formats 						     audit_data(4)

NAME

       audit_data - current information on audit daemon

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/security/audit_data

DESCRIPTION

       The  audit_data file contains information about the audit daemon. The file contains the process ID of the audit daemon, and the pathname of
       the current audit log file. The format of the file is:

	      pid>:<pathname>

       Where pid is the process ID for the audit daemon, and pathname is the full pathname for the current audit log file.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: A sample audit_data file.

       64:/etc/security/audit/server1/19930506081249.19930506230945.bongos

FILES

       /etc/security/audit_data

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Obsolete			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       audit(1M), auditd(1M), bsmconv(1M), audit(2), audit_control(4), audit.log(4)

NOTES

       The functionality described on this manual page is internal to audit(1M) and might not be supported in a future release.

       The auditd utility is the only supported mechanism to communicate with auditd(1M). The current audit log can be determined by examining the
       configured audit directories. See audit_control(4).

       The  functionality described on this manual page is available only if the Basic Security Module (BSM) has been enabled. See bsmconv(1M) for
       more information.

SunOS 5.10							    14 Nov 2002 						     audit_data(4)