MANAGER SETTINGS - AUDITING

To enable the Audit log capability of eG Enterprise, click on the Auditing subnode under the Manager Settings node of the SETTINGS tree structure.

An audit log can be best described as a simple log of changes, typically used for tracking temporal information. The eG manager can now be configured to create and maintain audit logs in the eG database, so that all key configuration changes to the eG Enterprise system, which have been effected via the eG user interface, are tracked. The eG audit logs reveal critical change details such as what has changed, who did the change, and when the change occurred, so that administrators are able to quickly and accurately identify unauthorized accesses/modifications to the eG Enterprise system.

Clicking on the Auditing node will now reveal an AUDITING section in the MANAGER SETTINGS page. In this section, define the following:

1. By default, the eG manager does not have audit logging capabilities. To enable the eG manager to perform audit logging, set the Enable auditlog flag to Yes. By default, this flag is set to No.

2. Setting the Enable auditlog flag to Yes will allow you to include/exclude admin CLI (command lineinterface) activities in the eG manager's audit logging purview. eG Enterprise provides a command-line interface (CLI) which allows any automation tool that pre-exists in the target environment or a script to communicate with the eG manager and execute simple commands on the manager to perform critical configuration tasks. This integration minimizes user intervention in the configuration of the monitoring system. By default, the eG manager also performs audit logging for configuration activities executed via the command line. Accordingly, the Include activities from the admin command line interface flag is set to Yes by default. To ensure that audit logging is not performed for admin CLI activitie, set this flag to No.

3. Finally, click the Update button.