File Based Audit Log Publishers publish audit messages to the file system.
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The File Based Audit Log Publisher component inherits from the Log Publisher
The following components have a direct aggregation relation from File Based Audit Log Publishers:
The properties supported by this managed object are as follows:
| Basic Properties: | Advanced Properties: |
|---|---|
| ↓ description | ↓ auto-flush |
| ↓ enabled | ↓ asynchronous |
| ↓ suppress-internal-operations | ↓ queue-size |
| ↓ suppress-replication-operations | ↓ time-interval |
| ↓ log-security-negotiation | ↓ buffer-size |
| ↓ log-intermediate-responses | ↓ compression-mechanism |
| ↓ connection-criteria | ↓ include-thread-id |
| ↓ request-criteria | |
| ↓ result-criteria | |
| ↓ timestamp-precision | |
| ↓ log-file | |
| ↓ log-file-permissions | |
| ↓ append | |
| ↓ rotation-policy | |
| ↓ retention-policy | |
| ↓ sign-log | |
| ↓ include-instance-name | |
| ↓ include-startup-id | |
| ↓ include-requester-ip-address | |
| ↓ use-reversible-form | |
| ↓ obscure-attribute | |
| ↓ exclude-attribute |
| Description | A description for this Log Publisher |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | A string |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Indicates whether the Log Publisher is enabled for use. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Indicates whether internal operations (for example, operations that are initiated by plugins) should be logged along with the operations that are requested by users. |
| Default Value | false |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
suppress-replication-operations
| Description | Indicates whether access messages that are generated by replication operations should be suppressed. |
| Default Value | false |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Indicates whether to log information about the result of any security negotiation (e.g., SSL handshake) processing that has been performed. |
| Default Value | false |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Indicates whether to log information about intermediate responses sent to the client. |
| Default Value | false |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Specifies a set of connection criteria that must match the associated client connection in order for a connect, disconnect, request, or result message to be logged. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | The DN of any Connection Criteria. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Specifies a set of request criteria that must match the associated operation request in order for a request or result to be logged by this Log Publisher. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | The DN of any Request Criteria. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Specifies a set of result criteria that must match the associated operation result in order for that result to be logged by this Log Publisher. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | The DN of any Result Criteria. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Specifies the smallest time unit to be included in timestamps. |
| Default Value | milliseconds |
| Allowed Values | seconds - Timestamps will be precise to the nearest second. milliseconds - Timestamps will be precise to the nearest millisecond. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | The file name to use for the log files generated by the File Based Audit Log Publisher. The path to the file can be specified either as relative to the server root or as an absolute path. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | Unknown |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | The File Based Audit Log Publisher must be disabled and re-enabled for changes to this setting to take effect. This modification requires that you disable and then re-enable this component for the change to take effect |
| Description | The UNIX permissions of the log files created by this File Based Audit Log Publisher. |
| Default Value | 640 |
| Allowed Values | A valid UNIX mode string. The mode string must contain three digits between zero and seven. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Specifies whether to append to existing log files. |
| Default Value | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | The rotation policy to use for the File Based Audit Log Publisher . When multiple policies are used, rotation will occur if any policy's conditions are met. |
| Default Value | No rotation policy is used and log rotation will not occur. |
| Allowed Values | The DN of any Log Rotation Policy. |
| Multi-Valued | Yes |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | The retention policy to use for the File Based Audit Log Publisher . When multiple policies are used, log files are cleaned when any of the policy's conditions are met. |
| Default Value | No retention policy is used and log files are never cleaned. |
| Allowed Values | The DN of any Log Retention Policy. |
| Multi-Valued | Yes |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Indicates whether the log should be cryptographically signed so that the log content cannot be altered in an undetectable manner. Log file signatures can be validated using the validate-file-signature tool provided with the server. Note that when enabling signing for a logger that already exists and was enabled without signing, the first log file will not be completely verifiable because it will still contain unsigned content from before signing was enabled. Only log files whose entire content was written with signing enabled will be considered completely valid. For the same reason, if a log file is still open for writing, then signature validation will not indicate that the log is completely valid because the log will not include the necessary "end signed content" indicator at the end of the file. |
| Default Value | false |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | The File Based Audit Log Publisher must be disabled and re-enabled for changes to this setting to take effect. This modification requires that you disable and then re-enable this component for the change to take effect |
| Description | Indicates whether log messages should include the instance name for the Metrics Engine. |
| Default Value | false |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Indicates whether log messages should include the startup ID for the Metrics Engine, which is a value assigned to the server instance at startup and may be used to identify when the server has been restarted. |
| Default Value | false |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Indicates whether log messages for operation requests should include the IP address of the client that requested the operation. |
| Default Value | false |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Indicates whether the audit log should be written in reversible form so that it is possible to revert the changes if desired. If this property is set true then the audit log is written in reversible form. For delete operations there will be comments with the contents of the entry. For modify operations the changes will only contain delete of the previous values and add of the new values (omitting those that didn't change). For modify DN operations there will be comments with the attribute additions or deletions, if any, caused by the RDN change. |
| Default Value | false |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Specifies the names of any attribute types that should have their values obscured in the audit log because they may be considered sensitive. Note that values are not obscured from any DN. |
| Default Value | No attribute types have their values obscured in the audit log. |
| Allowed Values | The name or OID of an attribute type defined in the server schema. |
| Multi-Valued | Yes |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Specifies the names of any attribute types that should be excluded from the audit log. |
| Default Value | ds-sync-hist |
| Allowed Values | The name or OID of an attribute type defined in the server schema. |
| Multi-Valued | Yes |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
auto-flush (Advanced Property)
| Description | Specifies whether to flush the writer after every log record. If the asynchronous writes option is used, the writer is flushed after all the log records in the queue are written. |
| Default Value | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
asynchronous (Advanced Property)
| Description | Indicates whether the File Based Audit Log Publisher will publish records asynchronously. |
| Default Value | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
queue-size (Advanced Property)
| Description | The maximum number of log records that can be stored in the asynchronous queue. The server will continuously flush messages from the queue to the log. That is, it does not wait for the queue to fill up before flushing to the log. Lowering this value can impact performance. |
| Default Value | 10000 |
| Allowed Values | An integer value. Lower limit is 1000. Upper limit is 100000 . |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | The File Based Audit Log Publisher must be restarted if this property is changed and the asynchronous property is set to true. |
time-interval (Advanced Property)
| Description | Specifies the interval at which to check whether the log files need to be rotated. |
| Default Value | 5s |
| Allowed Values | A duration. Lower limit is 1 milliseconds. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
buffer-size (Advanced Property)
| Description | Specifies the log file buffer size. |
| Default Value | 64kb |
| Allowed Values | A positive integer representing a size. Lower limit is 1. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
compression-mechanism (Advanced Property, Read-Only)
| Description | Specifies the type of compression (if any) to use for log files that are written. Note that this setting cannot be changed once the logger has been created, because of the possibility of mixing compressed and uncompressed data in the same file. Further, because it is difficult to append to a compressed file, any existing active log file will automatically be rotated when the server is started. If compressed logging is used, it may also be desirable to have another logger enabled that does not use compression. The rotation and retention policies for the uncompressed logger can be configured to minimize the amount of space it consumes, but having ready access to information about recent operations in uncompressed form may be convenient for debugging purposes. Alternately, you could consider having the uncompressed logger defined but not enabled so that it can be turned on as needed for debugging such problems. |
| Default Value | none |
| Allowed Values | none - No compression will be performed. gzip - Compress file data using gzip with the default compression level. If this compression level is specified, then files will automatically be given a ".gz" extension. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
include-thread-id (Advanced Property)
| Description | Indicates whether log messages should include the thread ID for the Metrics Engine in each log message. This ID can be used to correlate log messages from the same thread within a single log as well as generated by the same thread across different types of log files. More information about the thread with a specific ID can be obtained using the cn=JVM Stack Trace,cn=monitor entry. |
| Default Value | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
To list the configured Log Publishers:
dsconfig list-log-publishers
[--property {propertyName}] ...
To view the configuration for an existing Log Publisher:
dsconfig get-log-publisher-prop
--publisher-name {name}
[--tab-delimited]
[--script-friendly]
[--property {propertyName}] ...
To update the configuration for an existing Log Publisher:
dsconfig set-log-publisher-prop
--publisher-name {name}
(--set|--add|--remove) {propertyName}:{propertyValue}
[(--set|--add|--remove) {propertyName}:{propertyValue}] ...
To create a new File Based Audit Log Publisher:
dsconfig create-log-publisher
--publisher-name {name}
--type {type}
--set enabled:{propertyValue}
--set log-file:{propertyValue}
[--set {propertyName}:{propertyValue}] ...
To delete an existing Log Publisher:
dsconfig delete-log-publisher
--publisher-name {name}