log files

[Pittigher, Raymond - ES]

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From: LC Bruzenak [lenny at magitekltd.com]
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 2:27 PM
To: Pittigher, Raymond - ES
Cc: linux-audit at redhat.com
Subject: Re: log files

On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 14:15 -0400, Pittigher, Raymond - ES wrote:
> What do the users of this list use to read the log files? I have tried
> Spacewalk (which is nice) but is a lot of software to install to read
> logs. I have looked at Prewikka but do not have it totally configured
> yet to give it a OK or not.

My experiences (I assume you specifically mean the audit logs):

Prewikka would be for IDS events only with the prelude plugin.
I use the audit-viewer with pre-constructed list tabs to match events
necessary for verification testing.
For faster results when looking for specific events or investigation, I
use the command line tools aureport and ausearch.

What would be great IMHO is to have a prewikka-like web interface for
the audit events.

HTH,
LCB
--
LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
lenny at magitekltd.com


I also used the au tools (aureport, aufind, etc) but just wanting a average user to view the bad events brings the need of a point a click interface. The people that now read the audit events for the windows servers are spoiled by the cornerbowl tool. I tossed together a little script that dumps the audit events into a array, then sorts them and dumps them out but the users want a red background for bad and so on. Before I went crazy trying to put something together I wanted to see what was out in the wild. I guess something that dumps the files into a MySQL tables would be the easiest to work with.

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