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I am trying to log "Bad Passwords" or "Access Denied" attempts on the ASA and alert on them with Splunk:
I have the Cisco ASA 5510 Syslog setup and pointed to Splunk and I am getting data into Splunk but cannot search and see find the bad password attempts. I am running Cisco 8.2.1 I have changed the logging trap warnings to notifications with no effect.
logging enable
logging console notifications
logging trap warnings
logging device-id hostname
logging host inside 10.1.100.110
ASAXO# show logging
Syslog logging: enabled
Facility: 20
Timestamp logging: disabled
Standby logging: disabled
Debug-trace logging: disabled
Console logging: level notifications, 5513 messages logged
Monitor logging: disabled
Buffer logging: disabled
Trap logging: level warnings, facility 20, 5704731 messages logged
Logging to inside 10.1.100.110
History logging: disabled
Device ID: hostname "ProPathASAXO"
Mail logging: disabled
ASDM logging: disabled
ASAXO#
ASAXO#
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You should be looking for:
%ASA-6-605004: Login denied from source-address/source-port to interface:destination/service for user “username”
%ASA-6-605005: Login permitted from source-address/source-port to interface:destination/service for user “username”
Log level has to be set to informational. Event ID is 605004.
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You should be looking for:
%ASA-6-605004: Login denied from source-address/source-port to interface:destination/service for user “username”
%ASA-6-605005: Login permitted from source-address/source-port to interface:destination/service for user “username”
Log level has to be set to informational. Event ID is 605004.
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Thanks that is the information i needed.
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