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NAME

       aureport - a tool that produces summary reports of audit daemon logs

SYNOPSIS

       aureport [options]

DESCRIPTION

       aureport  is a tool that produces summary reports of the audit system logs. The aureport utility can also
       take input from stdin as long as the input is the raw log data. The reports have a column  label  at  the
       top  to  help  with interpretation of the various fields. Except for the main summary report, all reports
       have the audit event number. You can subsequently lookup the full event with ausearch  -a  event  number.
       You may need to specify start & stop times if you get multiple hits. The reports produced by aureport can
       be used as building blocks for more complicated analysis.

OPTIONS

       -au, --auth
              Report about authentication attempts

       -a, --avc
              Report about avc messages

       --comm Report about commands run

       -c, --config
              Report about config changes

       -cr, --crypto
              Report about crypto events

       -e, --event
              Report about events

       --escape option
              This option determines if the output is escaped to make the content safer for  certain  uses.  The
              options  are  raw  ,  tty  ,  shell  ,  and  shell_quote. Each mode includes the characters of the
              preceding mode and escapes more characters. That is to say shell includes all  characters  escaped
              by tty and adds more. tty is the default.

       -f, --file
              Report about files and af_unix sockets

       --failed
              Only  select  failed  events for processing in the reports. The default is both success and failed
              events.

       -h, --host
              Report about hosts

       --help Print brief command summary

       -i, --interpret
              Interpret  numeric  entities into text. For  example,  uid  is  converted  to  account  name.  The
              conversion  is done using the current resources  of  the machine where the search is being run. If
              you have renamed the accounts, or don't have the  same  accounts  on your machine, you  could  get
              misleading results.

       -if, --input file | directory
              Use  the  given file or directory instead of the logs. This is to aid analysis where the logs have
              been moved to another machine or only part of a log was saved.

       --input-logs
              Use the log file location from auditd.conf as input for analysis. This is needed if you are  using
              aureport from a cron job.

       --integrity
              Report about integrity events

       -k, --key
              Report about audit rule keys

       -l, --login
              Report about logins

       -m, --mods
              Report about account modifications

       -ma, --mac
              Report about Mandatory Access Control (MAC) events

       -n, --anomaly
              Report  about  anomaly  events.  These events include NIC going into promiscuous mode and programs
              segfaulting.

       --node node-name
              Only select events originating from node name string for processing in the reports. The default is
              to include all nodes. Multiple nodes are allowed.

       -nc, --no-config
              Do  not  include  the  CONFIG_CHANGE event. This is particularly useful for the key report because
              audit rules have key labels in many cases. Using this option gets rid of these false positives.

       -p, --pid
              Report about processes

       -r, --response
              Report about responses to anomaly events

       -s, --syscall
              Report about syscalls

       --success
              Only select successful events for processing in the reports.  The  default  is  both  success  and
              failed events.

       --summary
              Run the summary report that gives a total of the elements of the main report. Not all reports have
              a summary.

       -t, --log
              This option will output a report of the start and end times for each log.

       --tty  Report about tty keystrokes

       -te, --end [end-date] [end-time]
              Search for events with time stamps equal to or before the given end time. The format of  end  time
              depends  on  your locale. If the date is omitted, today is assumed. If the time is omitted, now is
              assumed. Use 24 hour clock time rather than AM or PM to specify time. An example  date  using  the
              en_US.utf8  locale  is  09/03/2009.  An  example  of time is 18:00:00. The date format accepted is
              influenced by the LC_TIME environmental variable.

              You may also use the word: now, recent, boot, today, yesterday, this-week,  week-ago,  this-month,
              this-year.  Now  means  starting  now. Recent is 10 minutes ago. Boot means the time of day to the
              second when the system last booted. Today means now. Yesterday is  1  second  after  midnight  the
              previous  day. This-week means starting 1 second after midnight on day 0 of the week determined by
              your locale (see localtime). Week-ago means 1 second after midnight exactly 7 days ago. This-month
              means  1  second after midnight on day 1 of the month. This-year means the 1 second after midnight
              on the first day of the first month.

       -tm, --terminal
              Report about terminals

       -ts, --start [start-date] [start-time]
              Search for events with time stamps equal to or after the given end time. The format  of  end  time
              depends on your locale. If the date is omitted, today is assumed. If the time is omitted, midnight
              is assumed. Use 24 hour clock time rather than AM or PM to specify time. An example date using the
              en_US.utf8  locale  is  09/03/2009.  An  example  of time is 18:00:00. The date format accepted is
              influenced by the LC_TIME environmental variable.

              You may also use the word: now, recent, boot, today, yesterday, this-week,  week-ago,  this-month,
              this-year.  Boot  means  the  time  of  day to the second when the system last booted. Today means
              starting at 1 second after midnight. Recent is  10  minutes  ago.  Yesterday  is  1  second  after
              midnight  the  previous day. This-week means starting 1 second after midnight on day 0 of the week
              determined by your locale (see localtime). Week-ago means starting 1 second after midnight exactly
              7  days ago. This-month means 1 second after midnight on day 1 of the month. This-year means the 1
              second after midnight on the first day of the first month.

       -u, --user
              Report about users

       -v, --version
              Print the version and exit

       --virt Report about Virtualization events

       -x, --executable
              Report about executables

NOTE

       The boot time option is a convenience function and has limitations. The time it calculates  is  based  on
       time  now  minus /proc/uptime. If after boot the system clock has been adjusted, perhaps by ntp, then the
       calculation may be wrong. In that case you'll need to fully specify the time. You can check the  time  it
       would use by running:

       date -d "`cut -f1 -d. /proc/uptime` seconds ago"

SEE ALSO

       ausearch(8), auditd(8).