NAME

       audispd.conf - the audit event dispatcher configuration file

DESCRIPTION

       audispd.conf  is the file that controls the configuration of the audit event dispatcher. Each line should
       contain one configuration keyword,  an  equal  sign,  and  then  followed  by  appropriate  configuration
       information.  All  option  names  and values are case insensitive. The keywords recognized are listed and
       described below. Each line should be limited to 160 characters or the line will be skipped. You  may  add
       comments to the file by starting the line with a '#' character.

       q_depth
              This  is  a  numeric  value  that  tells  how  big  to  make the internal queue of the audit event
              dispatcher. A bigger queue lets it handle a flood of events better, but could hold events that are
              not processed when the daemon is terminated. If you get messages in syslog  about  events  getting
              dropped, increase this value. The default value is 80.

       overflow_action
              This  option  determines  how the daemon should react to overflowing its internal queue. When this
              happens, it means that more events are being received than it can get rid  of.  This  error  means
              that  it  is going to lose the current event its trying to dispatch. It has the following choices:
              ignore, syslog, suspend, single, and halt.  If set to ignore,  the  audisp  daemon  does  nothing.
              syslog means that it will issue a warning to syslog.  suspend will cause the audisp daemon to stop
              processing  events. The daemon will still be alive. The single option will cause the audisp daemon
              to put the computer system in single user mode.  halt option  will  cause  the  audisp  daemon  to
              shutdown the computer system.

       priority_boost
              This  is  a non-negative number that tells the audit event dispatcher how much of a priority boost
              it should take. This boost is in addition to the boost provided from the audit daemon. The default
              is 4. No change is 0.

       max_restarts
              This is a non-negative number that tells the audit event dispatcher how many times it can  try  to
              restart a crashed plugin. The default is 10.

       name_format
              This  option controls how computer node names are inserted into the audit event stream. It has the
              following choices: none, hostname, fqd, numeric, and user.  None means that no  computer  name  is
              inserted  into the audit event.  hostname is the name returned by the gethostname syscall. The fqd
              means that it takes the hostname and resolves it with dns for a fully  qualified  domain  name  of
              that  machine.   Numeric is similar to fqd except it resolves the IP address of the machine.  User
              is an admin defined string from the name option. The default value is none.

       name   This is the admin defined string that identifies the machine if user is given as  the  name_format
              option.

       plugin_dir
              This is the location that audispd will use to search for its plugin configuration files.

SEE ALSO

       audispd(8)

Red Hat                                            March 2014                                   AUDISPD.CONF:(5)