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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: LC Bruzenak <lenny@magitekltd.com>
Cc: Linux Audit <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: audit-1.7.16 released
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:59:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911161059.05503.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1258161262.5355.214.camel@lcb>

On Friday 13 November 2009 08:14:22 pm LC Bruzenak wrote:
> Thinking about the client network connection timeout...
> 
> I am wondering if this is a serious enough condition to warrant
> inserting an audit event in addition to the syslog.

If you have 1000 machines and the switch dies, you will have 4000 events when 
everything reconnects. The server will record its own events and the clients 
will record duplicate copies from their end. The audit trail has not been lost 
or anything bad happened. I think this is more of a systems management issue 
than security.
 
> For me it is, because sending a termination event from the client is
> both difficult and unreliable, and I am supposed to provide client
> (sender) startup/shutdown data.

You should have daemon start/end events at the aggregator. Are they not 
getting there? Also, the aggregator should have matching connect/disconnect 
events.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-16 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-17 15:55 audit-1.7.16 released Steve Grubb
2009-10-26 14:46 ` LC Bruzenak
2009-10-30 14:56   ` Steve Grubb
2009-11-14  1:14     ` LC Bruzenak
2009-11-16 15:59       ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2009-11-16 23:52         ` LC Bruzenak
2009-11-17 21:48           ` Steve Grubb
2009-11-18  3:52             ` LC Bruzenak
2009-11-18  4:16               ` LC Bruzenak

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