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.
Currently that's not possible and I end up wasting space by
having
audit logs both in /var/log/audit/audit.log and in /var/log/messages.
Turning off af_unix is an option, but that has a significant drawback
of complicating ausearch/aureport.
-Steve