Good afternoon,

I have RHEL 7 systems set up to emit audit records when the firewall rules with iptables change. I do it with a single audit command:

-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S setsockopt -F a2=0x40 -F key=IPTablesChange

And it works great. I get audit logs like this:

type=PROCTITLE msg=audit(12/04/2020 11:04:58.840:3334178) : proctitle=iptables -D INPUT 2

type=SYSCALL msg=audit(12/04/2020 11:04:58.840:3334178) : arch=x86_64 syscall=setsockopt success=yes exit=0 a0=0x4 a1=ip a2=IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE a3=0x1009ca0 items=0 ppid=154754 pid=160855 auid=DrEvil uid=root gid=root euid=root suid=root fsuid=root egid=root sgid=root fsgid=root tty=pts0 ses=198995 comm=iptables exe=/usr/sbin/xtables-multi key=IPtablesChange

type=NETFILTER_CFG msg=audit(12/04/2020 11:04:58.840:3334178) : table=filter family=ipv4 entries=48

I want to do the same thing with RHEL 8 and nftables. I tried the same audit rule but nothing happens. I tried using firewall-cmd to change the rules. The rules changed, but no audit records. I fat fingered rules using nft but no audit record. I suspect that I’m not writing the audit rule correctly.  I looked around to see if a2 needed to be something other than 0x040 (IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE) but I couldn’t find anything.

Any suggestions on how to do this in RHEL 8 would be appreciated.

Best regards,

Gary Smith