Active Administrator 8.6.2 - User Guide

Excluding account events from auditing

Excluding account events from auditing

The events for specific accounts can be excluded from auditing. Accounts can be removed from the Excluded Accounts list to reinstate auditing of events for those accounts.

To exclude account events from auditing

1	Select Auditing & Alerting | Event Definitions.

You can select to search for accounts to exclude accounts by name, group, or OU.

To exclude accounts by name, select Exclude Accounts by Name.

a	Select a domain, type the account name to be excluded, and click Search.

b	Navigate through the search results selecting one or more accounts to be excluded and click the arrow button to add them to the list of Excluded Accounts.

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Click the plus sign button to add objects to be excluded by SID.

Type the Account SID and click Load details.

Click Exclude.

To exclude accounts by group, select Exclude Accounts by Group.

a	Select a domain, type the group name that includes the accounts to be excluded, and click Search.

b	Navigate through the search results selecting one or more accounts to be excluded and click the arrow button to add them to the list of Excluded Accounts.

To exclude accounts by organizational usint select Exclude Accounts by OU.

a	Select a domain, type the OU name that includes the accounts to be excluded, and click Search.

b	Navigate through the search results selecting one or more accounts to be excluded and click the arrow button to add them to the list of Excluded Accounts.

2	Optionally, click Refresh to update the list of Excluded Accounts with changes made by other administrators.

3	Click Exclude.

To remove accounts from the Excluded Accounts list

1	Select Auditing & Alerting | Event Definitions.

2	Click Exclude Accounts.

3	Select one or more accounts in the Excluded Accounts list.

4	Click the recycle bin button to remove the selected accounts from the Excluded Accounts list.

5	Optionally, click Refresh to update the list of Excluded Accounts with changes made by other administrators.

6	Click Exclude.

Archiving & purging audit events

Archiving & purging audit events

The audit database can become quite large over time. You should routinely purge and archive events to keep the audit database at a manageable size. If you choose to archive, the data is moved into the archive database.

Purged events are deleted from the live audit database. Archived events are first copied to the archive database and then deleted from the live audit database. You can select different events to purge or archive.

Topics 

•	Archiving events on demand

•	Purging events on demand

•	Setting purge and archive options

•	Scheduling an event log purge and archive

•	Managing the history log

•	Running database maintenance

To archive and purge audit events

1	Select Auditing & Alerting | Archiving and Purging.

The top pane displays the defined audit event archiving and purging schedules.

▪	To switch to the Archive and Purge History page, click History.

▪	To switch back to the Scheduled Audit Event Archiving and Purging page, click Schedule.

The bottom pane displays the maintenance tasks specific to the Purging and Archiving Events feature. See Managing tasks.

2	Use the options on the tool bar to manage purging and archiving.

 

Table 72. Archive and purge tool bar

Option	Description
Archive Now	Archive event entries and alert history items from the live audit database. See Archiving events on demand.
Purge Now	Purge event entries and alert history items from the live audit database. See Purging events on demand.
Refresh	Refresh the display.
Run	Immediately runs the purge and archive based on the properties for the selected schedule. See Scheduling an event log purge and archive. You can monitor the progress in the Tasks area.
Add	Add a new event log purge and archive schedule. See Scheduling an event log purge and archive.
Edit	Edit a selected event log purge and archive schedule. See Scheduling an event log purge and archive.
Delete	Delete selected event log purge and archive schedules.
History	Refresh the history log display, export the history log to a file, or clear the history log display. See Managing the history log.
Tasks	Refresh the task display, view task properties, send a task to email recipients, and group the task display by status. See Managing tasks.
DB Maintenance	Run database maintenance on the audit database. See Running database maintenance.

Archiving events on demand

Archiving events on demand

Copies event entries and alert history items from the live audit database to the active archive database, and then deletes the event entries and alert history from the live audit database. To schedule the archive process, see Scheduling an event log purge and archive.

To archive events on demand

1	Select Auditing & Alerting | Archiving & Purging.

2	Click Archive Now.

3	Type a date or select a date from the calendar.

4	Set options for the archive process, such as choosing to shrink the database, and include or exclude specific events. See Setting purge and archive options.

5	Click Archive Now.

Purging events on demand

Purging events on demand

Deletes event entries and alert history items permanently from the live audit database based on the selected purge options. To schedule the purge process, see Scheduling an event log purge and archive.

To purge events on demand

1	Select Auditing & Alerting | Archiving & Purging.

2	Click Purge Now.

3	Type a date or select a date from the calendar.

4	Set options for the purge process, such as choosing to shrink the database, and include or exclude specific events. See Setting purge and archive options.

5	Click Purge Now.