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AIX logs can be forwarded to Snare Central by the open source Snare for AIX agent, and will be received on port 6161 TCP or UDP, or the TLS receiver on port 6163.

Sample Events

lpar20_pub AIXAudit 4 1 Thu Dec 02 19:40:32 2004 FILE_Open snarecore root 20000190 30468 1 OK flags: 0 mode: 0 fd: 4 filename /etc/resolv.conf
lpar20_pub AIXAudit 3 11 Thu Dec 02 19:40:32 2004 PROC_Execute tail root 20000190 28152 22930 OK euid: 0 egid: 0 epriv: ffffffff:ffffffff name /usr/bin/tail
lpar20_pub AIXAudit 4 10 Thu Dec 02 19:40:32 2004 USER_Login sshd root root 30018 18836 OK user: 20000190 tty: ssh
lpar20_pub AIXAudit 4 8 Thu Dec 02 19:40:32 2004 USER_SU su root 20000190 31486 28322 OK root

Fields

Field

Description

DATE

Event date, in the format YYYY-MM-DD

TIME

Event time, in the format HH:MM:SS

SYSTEM

The source system

TABLE

AIXAudit

EVENTID

The AIX event. Examples include USER_SU, PROC_Execute, FILE_Open,

EVENTCOUNTAIX Event count

An internal counter of the generated event. Incremented by one each time an event is generated.

RUID

Real UID - the UID associated with the user at login

EUID

Effective UID - the UID under which the current executable is running

PROCESS

The process name associated with this event

PID

Process ID

PPID

Parent Process ID

RETURNCODE

Returncode - eg: OKof the executed command or system call

STRINGS

Any extra content sent by the agent, delimited by four spaces.

TARGET

For some events, the target (such as a filename, or process) associated with the event - may be included within the STRINGS field.