XYGATE Merged Audit Reference Manual

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XYGATE Merged Audit
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Reference Manual
Chapter 3. Configuring Filters and the FILTERS File
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ALERTTOKENs
This is a list of the columns you wish to display from the audit
detail, audit session, installation, and product tables. These
will be displayed when a user selects a detailed view option in
EMS.
Note: You must build XYGATE productsEMS tokens into your system EMS
Templates to be able to view the individual tokens.
Example 1 below shows an EMS alert. A message will be sent to the EMS collector
\PROD.$0. It will be marked CRITICAL. The message “XAC SCF-255 invoked” will be
displayed. along with the following information from the SQL Database: the login name
of the user invoking the command (SUBJECTLOGIN), the timestamp (RECORDLCT),
the originating system, the terminal used, the IP address, and the contents of the
AUDIT.RESULT field.
Example 1: Sample ACTION paragraph for an EMS alert
ACTIONCOLL_BEGIN
ACTION_BEGIN
ACTIONTYPE ALERT
ALERTTARGET \PROD.$0
ALERTSEVERITY NONCRITICAL
ALERTSTRING XAC SCF-255 invoked
ALERTTOKENSBEGIN
! BODY OF EMS MESSAGE:
AUDIT.SUBJECTLOGIN
AUDIT.RECORDLCT
AUDIT.TERMINAL
SESSION.IPADDRV46
AUDIT.RESULT
ALERTTOKENSEND
ACTION_END
ACTIONCOLL_END
IGNORE action is defined by ACTIONTYPE = IGNORE
The IGNORE action tells MOVERs to discard audit records that match the DATA
selection criteria rather than writing them to the XMA database.
If you wish to perform multiple ACTIONS, IGNORE must always be last. The MOVER
will stop processing the audit record, once it reaches IGNORE.
There are no parameters to configure for IGNOREs.
UDP SYSLOG alerts are defined by ACTIONTYPE = IPALERT
If you wish to generate SYSLOG (IPALERT) alerts, you must configure the following
PARAMETERS in the appropriate Filters:
IPALERT_ADDRESS Defines the TCP/IP address where XMA will send the
string meant for a SYSLOG. This keyword is required for
IPALERT actions.