Chapter 8. Auditing Considerations

Chapter 8. Auditing Considerations

This

section

summarizes the

changes

to

auditing

procedures

for

the

Ÿ

SMF records

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ÿ

Report

writer

utility

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ÿ

SMF

data

unload

utility

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The

 

auditor

must

decide on

appropriate

global

auditing

options

for t

and

 

on which auditing reports are to beOS/390producedSecurity. See Server

 

(RACF)

Auditor's Guideand OS/390

Security

Server (RACF) Macros

and

Interface

for

more

information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SMF Records

Figure 22 summarizes

the

new

event

codes

for

SMF records created

by

OS/390 Release 2. The new event code is

a general-use programming

inte

(GUPI).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 22.

New Event Codes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Event Code

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

Support

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

65

Audits

the

passing

of

access

rights

 

fromOS/390one

 

 

 

process

to

another.

 

 

 

OpenEdition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 23 summarizes changes to SMF records created by RACF for OS/39 Release 2. These changes are general-use programming interfaces (GUPI

Figure 23 (Page 1 of 2). Changes to SMF Records

Record Type

80

80

Record

Description

of

Change

 

 

 

 

 

 

Support

Field

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SMF80EVT

Event

code

57 is used to audit

OS/390twonew

 

OpenEdition

services: a

new

console

OpenEdition

 

communications service (CCS) and a

new

 

workload

manager

(WLM)

service. Two

 

 

new audit function codes, 99 and 100,

 

cause event 57 records to be generated.

 

Creation

of the

audit

records

is

controlled

 

by the existing PROCESS class.

 

 

 

Event code 65 is used to audit the

 

passing

of

access

rights

from one

process

 

to another. Three new audit function

 

codes, 95, 96, and 97, cause event 65

 

records to be generated. Creation of the

 

audit records is controlled by

the existing

 

PROCACT class.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relocate

For

event

code

2,

this

SMF

recordOS/390

64

contains

a

link

value

to

connect

clientOpenEditionand

 

server

audit

records.

 

 

DCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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