InTrust 11.4.2 - Self-Auditing in InTrust

Self-Auditing in InTrust

InTrust provides self-auditing capabilities, which help you monitor the health of your InTrust deployment and meet regulations compliance requirements. Self-auditing is configured differently for InTrust servers and agents. For details, see the following topics:

• InTrust Server Self-Auditing
• InTrust Agent Self-Auditing
• Using Self-Audit Events

InTrust Server Self-Auditing

InTrust Server self-auditing covers requests for InTrust services by external client applications (such as InTrust Deployment Manager and Repository Viewer) and InTrust-specific inter-service communication that occurs locally on the InTrust server. For details about the events that are logged, see InTrust Self-Audit Events.

By default, self-auditing of InTrust servers is disabled. To turn it on and off or change the auditing level on a particular InTrust server, use the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Aelita\ADC\RpcServer\RpcAuditLevel registry value on that server. The following values are accepted:

• 0
  Self-audit disabled
• 1
  Remote Access: External calls to InTrust Server are audited; RPC calls from InTrust services on the same server are not audited
• 2
  Everything : All calls (both external and local) are audited

InTrust Agent Self-Auditing

Agent-related self-auditing provides information about how agents run real-time monitoring rules. This data gives you insights into the following types of activity, all of which are based on real-time rules:

• Real-time monitoring
• Real-time event collection
• Agent-side log backup

For details about the audited events, see InTrust Self-Audit Events.

To enable or disable agent self-auditing globally in your InTrust organization, set the ITRT_SelfAuditLevel organization parameter to 1 or 0, respectively. For details about modifying InTrust organization parameters, see Organization Parameter Editor.

Using Self-Audit Events

InTrust lets you use its tools to collect and analyze its own self-audit events.

The following basic set of configuration objects is provided for this:

• "InTrust Self-Audit Log" data source
• "InTrust Self-Audit" search folder in Repository Viewer, containing the following searches:

  • Agent-side log backup configuration changes

  • All InTrust self-audit events

  • Connections to InTrust servers

  • Real-time collection configuration changes

  • Real-time monitoring configuration changes

Depending on which workflow you prefer, you can set up self-audit log management in InTrust Deployment Manager with collections or InTrust Manager with gathering jobs.

Gathering with Collections

To set up InTrust self-audit log gathering in InTrust Deployment Manager, you need some collections that get the "InTrust Self-Audit Log" data source from your InTrust servers. For each of your InTrust servers, create a dedicated Windows collection and configure it as follows:

• Include the InTrust server that the collection is for. Specify the same server as the one that processes the collection, in the Select InTrust Server field.
• Select "InTrust Self-Audit" as the data source.
• Specify the repository you need as the data store. Use a single repository for all self-audit data.

For details about the particular procedures, see Managing Collections and, generally, Getting Started with InTrust.

Gathering with Jobs

To set up InTrust self-audit log gathering in InTrust Manager, configure the following set of objects:

• For each of your InTrust servers, create a dedicated site and include the server in it. Specify the same server as the one that processes the site, in the InTrust Server field. For details, see Creating Sites.
• Create a gathering policy and select "InTrust Self-Audit" as its only data source. For details, see Understanding Policies.
• Create a dedicated task for gathering self-audit events and provide a suitable schedule for it. For details, see Understanding Jobs and Tasks.
• Within this task, create one gathering job for each of your new sites (see Gathering Job for details) and configure it as follows:
  • Bind your new policy to the site that the job is for.
  • Specify the repository you need as the data store. Use a single repository for all self-audit data.
• Apply your changes by clicking the Commit button in the toolbar.

For general information about task-based gathering workflows, see the Auditing Guide.

Analyzing Self-Audit Data in Repository Viewer

To view self-audit events collected to a repository, open it in Repository Viewer and use the predefined searches in the "InTrust Self-Audit" search folder. For details, see Running Searches and, generally, Searching for Events in Repository Viewer.