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Configuring and Managing Routers with Site Manager
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Maintaining an Audit Trail Log
To prevent an audit trail log file from becoming too large, you should periodically
delete old information in it or delete the file itself.
You can configure the Audit Trail feature to send you (and other network
managers) a copy of the audit trail log file whenever Site Manager updates it with
new information. For routers configured in dynamic mode, the Audit Trail feature
sends the log file after every tenth SNMP SET.
To use the Audit Trail feature, you must edit the default audit trail configuration
file that comes with Site Manager. You edit the file to:
• Specify an audit trail community for the routers.
• Specify whether you want auditing on or off. By default, the Audit Trail
feature is off.
The following section describes how to edit the audit trail configuration file.
Editing the Audit Trail Configuration File
Site Manager provides a default audit trail configuration file, audit.cfg. The file
resides in /usr/wf on UNIX workstations, and in c:\wf on PCs. You must edit the
file to specify the following information for each router you want to audit:
• The IP address of the router
• The path name of the audit trail log file
• The e-mail addresses of all users that the Audit Trail feature should notify if
the router’s configuration file changes
• Whether the audit trail feature is on or off
To edit the audit trail configuration file:
1. On a UNIX workstation, copy the audit.cfg file to a directory where you
have write permission.
2. Open audit.cfg using a standard text editor.
Figure
10-2 shows the default file.