OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Chapter 43. DCE Audit Service Administrative
Tasks
This chapter describes the following administrative tasks that are performed for the DCE
Audit Service:
• Setting the DCE audit environment variables.
• Starting (and stopping) the DCE audit daemon.
• Controlling access to the DCE audit daemon.
• Creating and maintaining event classes to logically group a set of audit events. Event
classes are created by editing event class files.
• Creating and maintaining filters that set the criteria for recording audit events in an
audit trail file.
• Enabling and disabling the audit logging service of the DCE audit daemon.
• Modifying and querying the attributes of the DCE audit daemon.
• Controlling and displaying the audit trail file.
• Using the DCE serviceability routing file.
All of the examples that the chapter gives for audit tasks use the DCE control program
(dcecp).
43.1 Setting DCE Audit Environment Variables
There are three environment variables that are related to the operation of the DCE Audit
Service. The DCE audit environment variables should be set before running the
application server (that is, the DCE audit client). The environment variables are as
follows:
• DCEAUDITOFF—If this variable is declared at the time the application is started,
auditing is turned off. By default, this variable is not declared.
• DCEAUDITFILTERON—If this variable is declared at the time the application is
started, filtering is enabled. By default, this variable is not declared; that is, there is
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