Overview of the netLD audit log.
This document describes netLD's authentication audit logging feature.
Overview
NetLD provides a log file for seeing when users log in and out of the netLD interface.
This feature was added in netLD version 16.
File location
Windows
C:\Program Files\Net LineDancer\audit.log
Linux
/usr/share/netld/log/audit.log
File Contents
Each line in the audit.log file represents a single audit event containing the timestamp of when the event occurred, the category* of the event, and a message describing the event
*Currently only the AUTH category is supported.
Message Types
The following message types are currently available
Type | Description | Example |
Login | A user logged in successfully | Web login for user admin from 10.211.55.11 |
Logout | A user logged out | Web logout for user admin from 10.211.55.11 |
Login Failure | An authentication was attempted but failed | Web login failed for user test from 10.211.55.11 |
The authentication events will be for either "Web" for a web client login or for "SSH" for Terminal Proxy login.
Example Contents
16-04-20 18:42:15,470 [AUTH ] Web login for user admin from 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 16-04-20 19:42:31,575 [AUTH ] Web logout for user admin from 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 16-04-21 18:40:13,539 [AUTH ] Web login for user admin from 10.211.55.11 16-04-21 18:40:31,643 [AUTH ] Web logout for user admin from 10.211.55.11 16-04-21 18:40:40,844 [AUTH ] Web login for user test from 10.211.55.11 16-04-21 18:40:46,987 [AUTH ] Web logout for user test from 10.211.55.11 16-04-21 18:41:39,510 [AUTH ] SSH login for user admin from 10.211.55.11 16-04-21 18:41:48,505 [AUTH ] SSH logout for user admin from 10.211.55.11 16-04-21 18:43:04,453 [AUTH ] Web login failed for user test from 10.211.55.11