Re: [Users] oVirt auditing

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jakub Bittner" <j.bittner(a)nbu.cz&gt; > To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Sander Grendelman" <sander(a)grendelman.com&gt; > Cc: users(a)ovirt.org, "Piotr Kliczewski" <pkliczew(a)redhat.com&gt; > Sent: Friday, December 6, 2013 8:08:17 AM > Subject: Re: [Users] oVirt auditing > > Dne 5.12.2013 18:34, Itamar Heim napsal(a): >> On 12/05/2013 06:13 PM, Jakub Bittner wrote: >>> Dne 5.12.2013 17:00, Sander Grendelman napsal(a): >>>> https://<your engine host>/api/events >>> Great, I did not know about this page, it is better(formated) source >>> than logs, but it still has the same issue. I can get info about what >>> happened, but not exact info about what was done. >> just btw, this is the "events" log from the webadmin. >> it covers actions done by users, not content of the edit operation >> (something piotr started looking into). >> >> with the move of the gui to work over the rest api, maybe just >> auditing the api payload for these actions would be good enough? >> >> >>> <event href="/api/events/5341" id="5341"> >>> <description>Interface nic1 (VirtIO) was updated for VM >>> server1.test.org. (User: user1)</description> >>> <code>934</code> >>> <severity>normal</severity> >>> <time>2013-12-05T16:35:46.263+01:00</time> >>> <correlation_id>7e60ae1</correlation_id> >>> <user href="/api/users/6d8fd48a-1072-11e3-b3ea-001a4ag8039d" >>> id="6d8fd48a-1072-11e3-c3ea-001a4aa8039d"/> >>> <vm href="/api/vms/cc821292-80c0-4b85-a912-0b8a969c22c9" >>> id="cc821292-80c0-4b85-a832-0b8a969c22c9"/> >>> <cluster href="/api/clusters/99408929-78cf-4dc7-a532-9d998063fa95" >>> id="99408929-82cf-4dc7-a532-9d998063fa95"/> >>> <data_center >>> href="/api/datacenters/5849b030-626e-47cb-ad90-3ce782d831b3" >>> id="5849b030-612e-47cb-ad90-3ce782d831b3"/> >>> <origin>oVirt</origin> >>> <custom_id>-1</custom_id> >>> <flood_rate>30</flood_rate> >>> </event> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > If I can have an suggestion, we discus audit log and for our siem it > would be great format like: > > user: user1 action: powered off vm: VM1.test.com host: ovirt.test.com > > user: user1 action: logged in > > user: user1 action: initiated console session VM: VM5.test.com > > user: user1 action: changed network interface detail: secure_vlan to > insecure_vlan on vnic1 vm: testserver.test.com > I focused on modifications and used json for it looking like: { object='objectName'propertyName='name' oldValue='previousValue' newValue='newValue'} You could have multiple properties modified, removed and created. What do you think about this format?