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Novell XDASv2 Administration Guide

XDASv2 for eDirectory, IDM, and NMAS

October 15, 2010

Administration Guide

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Page 1: ...Novell www novell com novdocx en 16 April 2010 AUTHORIZED DOCUMENTATION Novell XDASv2 Administration Guide XDASv2 for eDirectory IDM and NMAS v1 October 15 2010 Administration Guide...

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Page 5: ...XDASv2 Roles 16 3 4 3 Configuring XDASv2 Accounts 17 3 5 Securing the iManager Connection 18 4 Troubleshooting 19 A XDASv2 Events 21 A 1 Account Management Events 21 A 2 Session Management Events 22...

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Page 7: ...mentation included with this product Please use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page of the online documentation or go to www novell com documentation feedback html and enter your comm...

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Page 9: ...n 1 2 XDASv2 Server Architecture on page 9 1 1 Key Benefits Provides secured audit services for a distributed system Defines a set of generic events at a global distributed system level Defines a comm...

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Page 11: ...indows xdasauditds dlm xdaslog dll 2 2 Configuring XDASv2 Property File The XDASv2 property file is located at etc opt novell configuration xdasconfig properties You can customize the file according t...

Page 12: ...here will be no backup files log4j appender R MaxBackupIndex 10 Layout definition for appender Rolling log file R log4j appender R layout org apache log4j PatternLayout log4j appender R layout Convers...

Page 13: ...nstalling and using the Novell Audit iManager Plug in requires iManager 2 7 4 See Novell iManager Product Page http www novell com products consoles for requirements and download instructions 3 2 Inst...

Page 14: ...Sv2 Audit page is displayed Continue with Section 3 4 1 Configuring Events on page 14 3 4 Configuring XDASv2 Events for Auditing Section 3 4 1 Configuring Events on page 14 Section 3 4 2 Configuring X...

Page 15: ...ect 2 Log event values The events are logged into a text file Event values with more than 768 bytes in size are considered as large values You can log events of any size Log Large Values Select this o...

Page 16: ...bling services Service or Application Utilization Events Select the service or application utilization events for which you want to log events You can log events to start and terminate services and to...

Page 17: ...ject classes you have selected Click the attribute and click the arrow to add the attribute to the selected list of attributes 3 Click OK after you add the attributes Click Apply to confirm the modifi...

Page 18: ...3 Click Apply after adding the object classes 3 5 Securing the iManager Connection When you log in to iManager your connection is automatically forwarded to a secure port The default HTTPS port for iM...

Page 19: ...connection on the given port 3 Reload the xdasauditds module The TCP connection is lost Possible Cause If the remote server is not reachable or does not accept connection on the given port the followi...

Page 20: ...and is accepting the connection on the given port 2 Reload the xdasauditds module The SSL connection has failed Possible Cause The SSL connection fails because either the TLS SSL handshake fails or a...

Page 21: ...cular user or entity Blame or credit for an action goes to the identity for a set of activities within a system Accounts exist in the application domains to associate attributes with the set of identi...

Page 22: ...an automated security process such that it can no longer be used until it is re enabled Enable Account 0 0 0 3 Enable an existing account This is the counterpart event to the disable account event def...

Page 23: ...1 1 Terminate an existing session This event should be reported whenever an existing session as defined above is terminated Query Session 0 0 1 2 Query user session attributes This event should be rep...

Page 24: ...LASS_DEF Modify data item attributes This event is reported whenever a security relevant data item or resource element is modified either the value or an attribute of the data item Event Name Event Id...

Page 25: ...perspective setting up a trust relationship is often done by establishing an Enable Service 0 0 3 5 DSE_OPEN_B INDERY Enable a service or application This event ise reported when a service operation...

Page 26: ...ace to allow administrators to manage the resource access events that has to be audited and determine the unimportant events within the security context Event Name Event Identifier Corresponding eDir...

Page 27: ...ata Item Association 0 0 6 2 Query context of association with a data item This event is reported when rights are queried for an identity on a specific data item when trust relationship attributes are...

Page 28: ...tification Event Name Event Identifier Corresponding eDir Event Description Use Create Role 0 0 8 0 Create a new role Creates a new role or an attempt is made to create a new role Delete Role 0 0 8 1...

Page 29: ...2 Resource exhaustion This event is reported when a server system or mission critical application runs out of some critical resource like memory or disk space It is often difficult to report such even...

Page 30: ...se it must be reported Audit Data Store Corrupted 0 0 10 2 Audit datastore is corrupted This event is reported by OpenXDAS when the data store reports that an audit log has been corrupted Generally th...

Page 31: ...upon name value pairs in the token The act of creating and sending an access token is the start of a new pseudo identity with limited and specific rights to protected resources This pseudo identity c...

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Page 33: ...escription The original source of the event if applicable type string optional true Observer description The recorder ie the XDASv2 service of the event type object optional false properties Account r...

Page 34: ...fier type string optional false pattern 0 9 0 9 Name description A short descriptive name for the specific event eg a new replica is added type string optional true CorrelationID description Correlati...

Page 35: ...r optional true Tolerance description A tolerance value in milliseconds type integer optional true Certainty description Percentage certainty of tolerance type integer optional true minimum 0 maximum...

Page 36: ...ents Some or all of these fields may also be relevant to other types of event but information of this sort is required for auditing services The XDASv2 JSON record format is open By that we mean that...

Page 37: ...for human readability Id The event Id code represents the event identifier defined by the XDASv2 standard event taxonomy and extensions defined by the Novell CSS product Name The event name is a human...

Page 38: ...ng the system and generating events based on initiator actions An observer is described in terms of an account and an entity described below Referenced Classes The observer initiator and target fields...

Page 39: ...the 2 x hierarchy B 4 Example of an Event An example event is given below Source eDirectory DS Observer Account Domain TREE_NAME Name CN server1 O novell Entity SysAddr 164 99 90 129 SysName blr edir...

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