audit_hpux_xml.5 (2010 09)

audit_hpux_xml(5) audit_hpux_xml(5)

NAME

audit_hpux_xml - Audit DPMS service module for generating XML format audit data

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lib/security/$ISA/libaudit_hpux_xml.so

/usr/lib/security/$ISA/libaudit_hpux_xml.sl

DESCRIPTION

The XML DPMS service module converts audit data into XML format. XML stands for Extensible

Markup Language and it is used to transport and store data. Linking an XML data ﬁle with an Extensi-

ble Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) stylesheet transforms the data into other formats and

thus represents the data in other format types such as plain text or Hyper-Text Markup Language

(HTML).

Applications call the Audit DPMS switch interfaces described in audit_dpms_api(3). If the application

selects the XML DPMS module, the switch dynamically loads and calls the corresponding interfaces in

this module.

See audit_dpms_spi(3) for a description of the interfaces supported by DPMS service modules. The XML

service module provides the following interfaces:

audit_dpm_start()

audit_dpm_end()

audit_dpm_write_event()

It returns AUDIT_DPMS_UNSUPPORTED

for audit_dpm_read_event().

Options

In addition to the options that are described in audit_dpms_api(3), the following options are also sup-

ported.

all_info Include all the information available in the result XML data ﬁle. If this option is

not used, the module only gets and stores the information that is most commonly

used.

sync When writing audit data, ﬂush output after each event. For information about

ﬂush, see

fflush() in fclose (3s).

XML Data Format

The data format of the resulting XML data ﬁle is deﬁned in a special XML document, called XML schema

ﬁle. See

/etc/audit/AuditiXMLSchema_v1_0.xsd