Example Log Entries for Audited File System Operations

When auditing of file system operations is enabled at the cluster level, volume level, and file system level, each operation on a directory or file is logged on the node on which the operation was initiated.

Typical log entries provide a timestamp of the operation, the type of operation, the UID of the user who ran the command, the IP address from which the user ran the command, identifiers of the affected resources, the volume identifier, and the status of the operation. Status codes come from the Linux errno.h file. For a list of these codes, see Status Codes That Can Appear in Audit Logs.

NOTE Due to the way that the creation of tables is processed internally, sometimes the creation of tables is logged in FSAudit.log.json, rather than in DBAudit.log.json.

Below are some typical log entries:

{"timestamp":{"$date":"2015-06-06T10:44:22.800Z"},"operation":"MKDIR","uid":0,"ipAddress":
"10.10.104.51","parentFid":"2049.51.131248","childFid":"2049.56.131258","childName":
"ycsbTmp_1433587462796","volumeId":68048396,"status":0}
{"timestamp":{"$date":"2015-06-06T10:44:22.823Z"},"operation":"LOOKUP","uid":0,"ipAddress":
"10.10.105.51","srcFid":"2049.56.131258","srcName":"range0","volumeId":68048396,"status":2}
{"timestamp":{"$date":"2015-06-06T10:44:22.824Z"},"operation":"CREATE","uid":0,"ipAddress":
"10.10.104.51","parentFid":"2049.56.131258","childFid":"2049.57.131260","childName":"range0"
,"volumeId":68048396,"status":0}
{"timestamp":{"$date":"2015-06-06T10:44:22.838Z"},"operation":"WRITE","uid":0,"ipAddress":
"10.10.105.51","srcFid":"2049.57.131260","volumeId":68048396,"status":0}
{"timestamp":{"$date":"2015-06-06T10:44:48.628Z"},"operation":"READ","uid":0,"ipAddress":
"10.10.105.51","srcFid":"2049.63.131272","volumeId":68048396,"status":0}

To convert the user IDs to usernames, file identifiers to pathnames, and volume IDs to volume names, run the expandaudit utility. For example, here are the same audit records after they were processed by this utility:

{"timestamp":"{$date=2015-06-06T10:44:22.800Z}","operation":"MKDIR","user":"root","uid":"0","ipAddress":
"10.10.104.51","parentPath":"/ycsb1433587356934","childPath":"/ycsb1433587356934/ycsbTmp_1433587462796",
"childName":"ycsbTmp_1433587462796","VolumeName":"mapr.cluster.root","volumeId":"68048396","status":"0"}
{"timestamp":"{$date=2015-06-06T10:44:22.823Z}","operation":"LOOKUP","user":"root","uid":"0","ipAddress":
"10.10.105.51","srcPath":"/ycsb1433587356934/ycsbTmp_1433587462796","srcName":"range0","VolumeName":
"mapr.cluster.root","volumeId":"68048396","status":"2"}
{"timestamp":"{$date=2015-06-06T10:44:22.824Z}","operation":"CREATE","user":"root","uid":"0","ipAddress":
"10.10.104.51","parentPath":"/ycsb1433587356934/ycsbTmp_1433587462796","childPath":
"/ycsb1433587356934/ycsbTmp_1433587462796/range0","childName":"range0","VolumeName":"mapr.cluster.root",
"volumeId":"68048396","status":"0"}
{"timestamp":"{$date=2015-06-06T10:44:22.838Z}","operation":"WRITE","user":"root","uid":"0","ipAddress":
"10.10.105.51","srcPath":"/ycsb1433587356934/ycsbTmp_1433587462796/range0","VolumeName":"mapr.cluster.root",
"volumeId":"68048396","status":"0"}
{"timestamp":"{$date=2015-06-06T10:44:48.628Z}","operation":"READ","user":"root","uid":"0","ipAddress":
"10.10.105.51","srcPath":"/ycsb1433587356934/ycsbTmp_1433587462796/range6","VolumeName":"mapr.cluster.root",
"volumeId":"68048396","status":"0"}