1.1 Key Benefits

  • Provides secured audit services for a distributed system.

  • Defines a set of generic events at a global distributed system level.

  • Defines a common portable audit record format to help merge and analyze the audit information from multiple components of a distributed system.

  • Defines a common format for audit events that analysis applications can use.

  • Records XDASv2 audit trail.

  • Configures event preselection criteria and event disposition actions.

  • Provides a common audit format regardless of the platform on which the XDASv2 service is running.

  • Supports heterogeneous environments without the necessity to re-engineer the current operating system or application-specific audit service implementations.

  • Supports adequate separation of duties for users.

  • Protects the audit log by making it accessible only to principals acting in specific administrative or security roles.

  • Optionally caches audit events locally on the agent in case of communication failure between the agent and the auditing server and re-sends events when communication is re-established.