CHAPTER 4: SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
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4.3
Events Tasks
Events are a specified set of actions or attempted actions that are recorded in log files or
sent to a visual display to enable a system administrator to monitor system activity.
Multinet4 specifies a set of events (see Table 4–23:: Logged Events) that are recorded in log
files on the management server. These log files are configured with the
4.3.1.1 Logs: Global
Settings
screen, and user access to these log files is provided by the
4.3.1.2 Logs: Files
screen.
Multinet4 also supports the syslog protocol for collecting event information and delivering
it to a remote device. For more on syslog see
Section 4.3.2: Syslog
.
4.3.1
Logs
The following system events are logged by Multinet4 in the log files on the management
server described in
Section 4.3.1.2: Logs: Files
:
Table 4–23: Logged Events
Event
Description
Login
User
loginname
logged in.
A user with login name
loginname
logged into the system through
the web interface.
Logout
User
loginname
logged out.
A user with login name
loginname
logged out of the system through
the web interface.
Maximum Users
Maximum number of users reached.
The maximum number of user accounts has already been reached
and an administrator has tried to add an additional user to the
system.
New Account
New user
loginname
created in group
groupname
.
An administrator created a new user named
loginname
and assigned
that user to permission group
groupname
.
Password Change
Password for user
loginname
has been changed.
A user’s password was changed. This may be due to the user
updating the password or to an administrator setting a new
password for the user in the Authentication: Accounts screen.
Failed Login
User
loginname
failed to authenticate.
Someone attempted to log in to the system using the user name
loginname
, but the login was rejected due to a bad password. When
the consecutive number of failed logins equals the number set in the
Authentication: Policies screen the Account Lockout event is
launched (see below).
