Re: [PATCH] auvirt: a new tool for reporting events related to virtual machines

On Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:56:51 AM Marcelo Cerri wrote: > This patch adds a new tool to extract information related to virtual > machines from the audit log files. It can output a summary with > information about the number of events found with details by type of > record and operation. The tool can also output the filtered records as > found in the audit log. > > Using the --avc option auvirt tries to correlate AVC records to the guests > based on its security context. It's also possible to select records related > to just one guest using the UUID or the guest name. I'm wondering about this tool. It runs fine. But I thought you were wanting to do some more sophisticated analysis of events. For example this is the current output: $ ./auvirt --file ../../../virt-audit.log Total records: 6 Virt records: 6 Resource records: 4 Machine ID records: 1 AVC records: 0 Operations: Start: 1 Stop: 0 Considered time: Start: Tue Dec 20 09:33:01 2011 End: Tue Dec 20 09:33:01 2011 This is not much different than what can be reported by ausearch/report with the new uuid and vm search fields. Also, testing with the uuid number doesn't seem to get any hits. But using the vm name does. I plan to add a very basic virt report to aureport soon. I was wondering if the above is all anyone really wanted to see? I would think that perhaps you want some info about start/stop assignment of resources, changes in resources, and perhaps MAC or anomaly events related to a vm. But laid out like the aulast program. boot vm-name time (total runtime) resource what-kind old-value new-value time (total time assigned) avc access-type obj results time shutdown vm-name time and there might be other audit events associated with a vm. -Steve