RE: Audit Parsing Library Requirements

On Friday 10 March 2006 12:05, Steve Grubb wrote: > so this is another round of updates with more details fleshed out. OK. I think the last round of comments was helpful. I added some language to define the concept of multiple hosts in one log. This is the final draft unless there is an omission. -Steve Audit Event Parsing Library Specifications ========================================== Definitions ----------- An audit event is all records that have the same host, timestamp, and serial number. Each event on a host has a unique timestamp and serial number. An event is composed of multiple records which have information about different aspects of an audit event. Each record is denoted by a type which indicates what fields will follow. Information in the fields are held by a name/value pair that contains an '=' between them. Each field is separated from one another by a space or comma. Ground Rules ------------ All functions that begin with ausearch are related to searching for a subset of events based on certain criteria. All functions that begin with auparse are used to access events, records, and fields sequentially and without regard to any search options that may be in effect. All functions return 1 on success and 0 on failure unless otherwise noted. Where the return type is a char pointer, NULL will indicate failure. The data structures would be hidden from the external application. Access to fields is a name/value style. You access the fields through functions that either return a pointer to an immutable, zero-terminated array of ASCII characters or integral values. Every function (except auparse_init) takes a parameter, au, which is the internal state information for the current query. Functions --------- auparse_state_t - is an opaque data type used for maintaining library state. typedef enum { AUSOURCE_LOGS, AUSOURCE_FILE, AUSOURCE_BUFFER } ausource_t; auparse_state_t *auparse_init(ausource_t source, const void *b) - allow init of library. Set data source: logs, file, buffer. The pointer 'b' is used to set the file name or pass the buff when those types are given. typedef enum { AUSEARCH_STOP_EVENT, AUSEARCH_STOP_RECORD, AUSEARCH_STOP_FIELD } austop_t; int ausearch_set_param(auparse_state_t *au, const char *field, const char *op, const char *value, austop_t where) - set search options. The field would be the left hand side of the audit name/value pairs. The op would be how to match: =,!=,>,<. The value would be the right hand side of the audit field name/value pairs. The where parameter tells the search library where to place the internal cursor when a match is found. It could be on first field of first record, first field of record containing the match, or the field that matches. int ausearch_next_event(auparse_state_t *au) - traverse to the next event that yields a match based on the given search criteria. int auparse_next_event(auparse_state_t *au) - traverse to next event. This allows access to time and serial number. typedef struct { time_t sec; // Event seconds unsigned int milli; // millisecond of the timestamp unsigned long serial; // Serial number of the event const char *host; // Machine's name } event_t; event_t auparse_get_timestamp(auparse_state_t *au) - retrieve time stamp of current record time_t auparse_get_time(auparse_state_t *au) - retrieve time in seconds of current record time_t auparse_get_milli(auparse_state_t *au) - retrieve milliseconds time of current record unsigned long auparse_get_serial(auparse_state_t *au) - retrieve serial number of current record const char *auparse_get_host(auparse_state_t *au) - retrieve host name of current record int auparse_first_record(auparse_state_t *au) - set iterator to first record in current event int auparse_next_record(auparse_state_t *au) - traverse to next record in event. This allows access to the event type int auparse_get_type(auparse_state_t *au) - retrieve type of current record int auparse_first_field(auparse_state_t *au) - set field pointer to first in current record int auparse_next_field(auparse_state_t *au) - traverse the fields in a record const char *auparse_find_field(auparse_state_t *au, const char *name) - find a given field in a event or record. Name is the left hand side of the name/value pair. Returns pointer to the value as ascii text. const char *auparse_find_field_next(auparse_state_t *au) - find the next occurance of that field in the same record. Returns pointer to the value as ascii text. const char *auparse_get_field_str(auparse_state_t *au) - return current field value as a string int auparse_get_field_int(auparse_state_t *au) - return current field value as an int const char *auparse_interpret_field(auparse_state_t *au) - interpret the current field int auparse_destroy(auparse_state_t *au) - free all data structures and close file descriptors Code Example ------------ int main(void) { auparse_state_t *au = auparse_init(AUSOURCE_LOGS, NULL); if (au == NULL) exit(1); if (!ausearch_set_param(au, "auid", "=", "500", AUSEARCH_STOP_EVENT)) exit(1); while (ausearch_next_event(au)) { if (auparse_find_field(au, "auid")) { printf("auid=%s\n", auparse_interpret_field(au)); } } return 0; } -- Linux-audit mailing list Linux-audit(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit