Setup Guide

Enabling Audit and Security Logs

You enable audit and security logs to monitor conguration changes or determine if these changes aect the operation of the system in the

network. You log audit and security events to a system log server, using the logging extended command in CONFIGURATION mode. This

command is available with or without RBAC enabled. For information about RBAC, see Role-Based Access Control.

Audit Logs

The audit log contains conguration events and information. The types of information in this log consist of the following:

• User logins to the switch.

• System events for network issues or system issues.

• Users making conguration changes. The switch logs who made the conguration changes and the date and time of the

change. However, each specic change on the conguration is not logged. Only that the conguration was modied is logged with the

user ID, date, and time of the change.

• Uncontrolled shutdown.

Security Logs

The security log contains security events and information. RBAC restricts access to audit and security logs based on the CLI sessions’ user

roles. The types of information in this log consist of the following:

• Establishment of secure trac ows, such as SSH.

• Violations on secure ows or certicate issues.

• Adding and deleting of users.

• User access and conguration changes to the security and crypto parameters (not the key information but the crypto conguration)

Important Points to Remember

When you enabled RBAC and extended logging:

• Only the system administrator user role can execute this command.

• The system administrator and system security administrator user roles can view security events and system events.

• The system administrator user roles can view audit, security, and system events.

• Only the system administrator and security administrator user roles can view security logs.

• The network administrator and network operator user roles can view system events.

NOTE

: If extended logging is disabled, you can only view system events, regardless of RBAC user role.

Example of Enabling Audit and Security Logs

Dell(conf)#logging extended

Displaying Audit and Security Logs

To display audit logs, use the show logging auditlog command in Exec mode. To view these logs, you must rst enable the logging

extended command. Only the RBAC system administrator user role can view the audit logs. Only the RBAC security administrator and

system administrator user role can view the security logs. If extended logging is disabled, you can only view system events, regardless of

RBAC user role. To view security logs, use the show logging command.

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