Re: More info on remote logging

On Tuesday 18 May 2010 10:27:32 am Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > I'm interested in sending audit logs to a central logging server. One > option is using the builtin syslog plugin for audisp, but I also see > audisp-remote that mentions sending logs to a remote server. > Unfortunately, I'm having trouble finding more information about that > (such as "what kind of a remote server" and "how do you set up a > remote server"). auditd is the remote server. Look at the auditd.conf man page starting at the tcp_listen_port entry to see what options you have available. One thing to note, I do not enable the kerberos support right now on any Red Hat or Fedora release.

> Also a suggestion -- the syslog plugin for audisp doesn't specify the > facility, so the default facility (LOG_USER) is used. Perhaps this can > be made configurable so I could configure syslog to only send audit > logs to remote without duplicating them in /var/log/messages (e.g. set > facility to local9 and only send it to a remote server, not locally)? Sure. If you want to file a RFE bugzilla, please do.