Deployment Architecture

auditd splunkd

criscollins
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We are required to monitor /var/log/audit. Whenever splunkd accesses audit.log a new event is created. We are getting close to ten thousand of these messages per hour. I have tried to create an excpetion in audit.rules, however there does not seem to be a good hook, that won't affect legitimate audit.log access events. Any ideas how to solve this issue?

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tmacdonagh
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Removed my previous bad answer. The proper line to be entered into your audit.rules file is

-a exit,never -F path=/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunkd -k splunk_exclude

responsys_cm
Builder

Are these messages being generated from syscall rules or file system rules? If you are using a syscall rule, you can use the -F switch and exclude the uid of the Splunk user.

The other option is to just have Splunk route those events to the nullQueue.

Craig

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tmacdonagh
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splunk runs as root.

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