linux-audit: Collect messages from Linux audit logs

1: linux-audit() source options

It reads and automatically parses the Linux audit logs. You can override the file name using the filename() parameter and the prefix for the created name-value pairs using the prefix() parameter. Any additional parameters are passed to the file source.

Note

Most recent Linux distributions enable Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) or AppArmor as a security measure. If enabled, these technologies might disable access to the Linux Audit log file by default. Consult their manuals to enable Linux Audit log access for AxoSyslog.

Declaration:

   linux-audit(options);

Example: Using the linux-audit() driver

source s_auditd {
    linux-audit(
        prefix("test.")
        hook-commands(
            startup("auditctl -w /etc/ -p wa")
            shutdown("auditctl -W /etc/ -p wa")
        )
    );
};

1 - linux-audit() source options

The file() driver has the following options:

filename()


Type:	path
Default:

Description: The log file of linux-audit. The AxoSyslog application reads the Linux audit logs from this file.

prefix()


Synopsis:	prefix()
Default:	.auditd.

Description: Insert a prefix before the name part of the parsed name-value pairs to help further processing. For example:

To insert the my-parsed-data. prefix, use the prefix(my-parsed-data.) option.
To refer to a particular data that has a prefix, use the prefix in the name of the macro, for example, ${my-parsed-data.name}.
If you forward the parsed messages using the IETF-syslog protocol, you can insert all the parsed data into the SDATA part of the message using the prefix(.SDATA.my-parsed-data.) option.

Names starting with a dot (for example, .example) are reserved for use by AxoSyslog. Note that if you use an empty prefix (prefix("")) or one starting with a dot, AxoSyslog might replace the original value of an existing macro (note that only soft macros can be overwritten, see Hard versus soft macros for details). To avoid such problems, use a prefix when naming the parsed values, for example, prefix(my-parsed-data.)