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active directory monitoring is generating too many audit events in WinEventLog:Security

yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I just turned on a splunk forwarder with the active directory monitoring on my AD server.
Since the windows logs WinEventLogs:Security are generating a large number of audit success events :

Log Name: Security
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing
Date: 2/14/2013 11:55:59 AM
Event ID: 879798
Task Category: Directory Service Access
Level: Information
Keywords: Audit Success
User: N/A
Computer: mydomain.com
Description: An operation was performed on an object.

I am also monitoring the WinEventLogs so those messages are hitting my license volume.
I know that I can filter then out at the indexer level, but this is still traffic.
How to avoid them.

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

We found the solution : reducing the log level for the audit events in windows to avoid logging the audit success.

We changed the Directory Service Access subcategory to failure instead of success.
see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232714

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

We found the solution : reducing the log level for the audit events in windows to avoid logging the audit success.

We changed the Directory Service Access subcategory to failure instead of success.
see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232714

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