HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 Security

Configuring and Managing the Auditing System

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Table of contents

 

Audience ............................................................................................................................................

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Introduction.........................................................................................................................................

2

Auditing system overview .....................................................................................................................

3

Architecture.....................................................................................................................................

3

Audit tags .......................................................................................................................................

5

Audit trail........................................................................................................................................

5

Audit events ....................................................................................................................................

5

Audit tunable parameters (HP-UX 11i v3 only) .....................................................................................

7

Self-auditing programs......................................................................................................................

7

Auditing system extensions (HP-UX 11i v3 only) .................................................................................

13

HP-UX Auditing System Administration..................................................................................................

14

Installation.....................................................................................................................................

14

Configuration ................................................................................................................................

15

Management .................................................................................................................................

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Writing a DPMS service module ..........................................................................................................

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Service Provider Interfaces (SPIs) ......................................................................................................

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DPMS service module implementation...............................................................................................

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Best practices ....................................................................................................................................

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Audit policy...................................................................................................................................

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Audit generation and capture ..........................................................................................................

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Audit retention and storage .............................................................................................................

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Audit log analysis ..........................................................................................................................

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Audit log configuration, security, and protection ................................................................................

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Troubleshooting.................................................................................................................................

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Glossary...........................................................................................................................................

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For more information..........................................................................................................................

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Send comments to HP.........................................................................................................................

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