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<chapter id="chapter6">
<title>System audit</title>
<para>
The Pandora's system audit shows all the actions performed by each
user, as well as the failed logins.
</para>
<para>
The system audit includes actions that somehow try to by pass the
security system: attempts to delete an incident by an unauthorized
user, attempts to change user profiles by unauthorized users, etc.
Its main function is, however, to trace the user connections
(login/logout).
</para>
<para>
The audit Logs can be found in the "System Audit Log" option of the
Administration menu, ordered chronologicly.
</para>
<para>
Filters can be applied to the Logs displayed to show only those of
interest for the user, selected by the action the Log produces.
</para>
<para>
The selectable actions are those actions stored in the Data Base
at that time.
</para>
<graphic scale='70' fileref="images/image049.png" valign="bottom"
align="center"/>
<para>
The following fields display the Audit Logs information:
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>User:</emphasis> User that triggerd the event (SYSTEM
is special user of the system).
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Action:</emphasis> Action generated by the entry in
the log.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Date:</emphasis> Date of the entry in the log.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Source IP:</emphasis> IP of the machine or the agent
that provoked the entry.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Comment:</emphasis> Comment describing the entry
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<sect1 id="sec6.1">
<title>Statistics</title>
<para>
There isn't a special section to view system audit
statistics. However, we could use a graph generated in the Users
section to evaluate the actions of each user, as this graph
would represent the total number of entries in the audit log for
each one: the more active the user is the higher the number of
entries.
</para>
<para>
The graph will also show entries of invalid users, i.e., those
entries generated by failed attemps to log in.
</para>
<graphic fileref="images/image050.png" valign="bottom"
align="center"/>
</sect1>
</chapter>