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C HAPTER 18<br />

Monitoring, Auditing, and<br />

Reporting<br />

About this chapter This chapter contains information on monitoring the current state <strong>of</strong><br />

your <strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong>. It also explains the <strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong>’s unique<br />

auditing features and describes how messages are logged on the<br />

system. Using the audit information, you can generate detailed reports<br />

that provide information on security violations, failed login attempts,<br />

and network traffic, as well as many other reports.<br />

Overview <strong>of</strong> the<br />

audit process<br />

Note: The auditing log files can become large quickly and take up a lot <strong>of</strong> hard disk space.<br />

To solve this problem, the log files are automatically rotated. See "Understanding<br />

automatic (cron) jobs" in Appendix A for details.<br />

This chapter includes the following topics:<br />

“Overview <strong>of</strong> the audit process” on page 18-1<br />

“Monitoring <strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong> status” on page 18-3<br />

“Auditing on the <strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong>” on page 18-5<br />

“Logging application messages using Syslog” on page 18-21<br />

“Generating and viewing reports using the Admin Console” on<br />

page 18-23<br />

“Viewing auto-generated reports” on page 18-30<br />

“Generating exportable reports” on page 18-30<br />

“Using third party reporting tools” on page 18-31<br />

Monitoring, auditing, and reporting are closely related pieces <strong>of</strong> the<br />

audit process that function together to provide information to you<br />

about the activity on your <strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong>. On the <strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong>, you<br />

can monitor the status <strong>of</strong> various processes in real-time, view stored<br />

audit information, and generate detailed reports. The diagram below<br />

demonstrates how these pieces are related in the audit flow.<br />

18<br />

Monitoring, Auditing, and Reporting 18-1

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