Centralized Management of Planned Audit Record ContentΒΆ

SIMP centrally controls what audit events are recorded on the clients. The SIMP module controls which of the those events are sent to local syslog daemon so that they may be forwarded to a central syslog server. The following list contains the conditions to be met for the SIMP logs to be sent to syslog.

  • $programname == ‘sudosh’
  • $programname ==’yum’
  • $syslogfacility-text == ‘cron’
  • $syslogfacility-text == ‘authpriv’
  • $syslogfacility-text == ‘local5’
  • $syslogfacility-text == ‘local6
  • $syslogfacility-text == ‘local7’
  • $syslogpriority-text == ‘emerg’
  • $syslogfacility-text == ‘kern’ and $msg startswith ‘IPT:’

SIMP also has a stock ryslog module that exists within the SIMP module. The stock rsylsog server configures the rsylog daemon to accept logs from SIMP clients and places them in /var/log/hosts/. The following files are recreated in that directory:

  • sudosh.log
  • httpd.log
  • dhcpd.log
  • puppet-agent-err.log
  • puppet-agent.log
  • puppet-master.log
  • audit.log
  • slapd.log
  • iptables.log
  • secure.log
  • messages.log
  • maillog.log
  • cron.log
  • spooler.log
  • boot.log

References: AU-3 (2), AU-13 (2), AU-6 (4)