Novell Advanced Audit Service Administration Guide

Novell^® Advanced Audit Service (NAAS) enables you to audit services running on the network. NAAS uses Novell eDirectory^TM for storing policies and configuration information, and for managing access to the audited data. The main components of NAAS are:

Audit Utility - Provides a user interface for communicating with the audit framework. Using this utility, you can configure and view the Audit policies, and view the audit data stored in the Audit database.

Audit Agent - Resides on each machine that is hosting the services you want to audit. The agent performs the following tasks:

• Collects audit events from the audited services based on the policy.
• Stores the audit records locally, and periodically forwards them to the Audit server.

Audit Server - Collects the audit records from the Audit agents and stores them in the database. The Audit server also services queries from the Audit utility for reading these audit records and performs the necessary access control.

Audit Database - Stores the audit records.

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