Centralized Logging question #2

[Steve Grubb]

On Thursday, April 28, 2016 07:55:13 PM Warron S French wrote:
> If I centralize audit logging through rsyslog, and I have each of the remote
> machines' /etc/rsyslog.conf to use the same generic audit.log file name
> instead of customizing the audit logs with something like;
> HOSTNAME-audit.log, because ausearch apparently only looks for a file
> specifically of the format audit.log...

People who use rsyslog as the centralizing tool are likely to be using 
something else like splunk or other tools to do audit reporting and review.


> Will the log-data submitted from the various hosts be consolidated into a
> single file? 

Through the native audit tools, yes. Through other tools...I don't know. There 
are a variety of ways central logging can be done. I'm surprised no one has 
chimed in to offer an alternate.


> Will the ausearch command then be usable with the -if argument?

Once rsyslog gets the audit event, it adds its own data to the record. That 
messes up the audit tool's parsers.

-Steve