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5.1 Administration
This section contains administration information such as managing your cluster, data, users, jobs and security information such as configuring your security environment and auditing.
Security Guide
Security Overview
Describes the security features of the MapR Converged Data Platform.
Auditing in MapR
Describes how auditing records valuable information about the cluster.

MapR 5.1 Documentation

5.1 Administration
This section contains administration information such as managing your cluster, data, users, jobs and security information such as configuring your security environment and auditing.
- Administrator Guide
- Security Guide
  - Security Overview
    Describes the security features of the MapR Converged Data Platform.
    - Authentication in MapR
      Provides information about MapR ticket, Kerberos, Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) authentication.
    - Authorization in MapR
      Describes how flexible authorization systems restrict a user's scope.
    - Encryption Used by MapR
      Describes how encrypted data transmission protects communication paths.
    - Impersonation in MapR
      Describes how to give the mapr super user centralized control of the cluster.
    - Auditing in MapR
      Describes how auditing records valuable information about the cluster.
  - Security Architecture
    Describes the default security architecture and additional authentication and encryption capabilities.
  - Logging into a Secure Cluster
    Describes how to use tickets to access a secure MapR cluster.
  - Tickets and Certificates
    Describes how tickets and certificates authenticate users and servers to a cluster.
  - Getting Started with MapR Security
    Describes the two core scenarios that allow quick implementation of security features.
  - Configuring MapR Security
    Describes how to enable security features and configure the components on a secure cluster.
  - Auditing of Cluster Administration and Operations on Directories, Files, Tables, and Streams
    Describes how to process and use audit records to improve data analysis.

Auditing in MapR

Describes how auditing records valuable information about the cluster.

The auditing features in MapR let you log audit records of cluster-administration operations and operations on directories, files, and tables.

Auditing creates audit records of maprcli commands, REST API calls, and other actions performed on a cluster through the MapR Control System (MCS).

Auditing records many different types of operations on directories, files, and MapR-DB tables in log files in various locations in your MapR cluster. You can then process the information in these log files with Apache Drill or other tools. For an overview of how auditing works and the wide variety of ways you can use auditing, see Auditing of Cluster Administration and Operations on Directories, Files, and Tables.

Special guidance is provided for using auditing in cluster administration or file system and table operations, and information on audit log files to help interpret auditing messages.