NetWare Auditing Solutions

NetWare 6.5 contains an auditing utility developed by Blue Lance (www.bluelance.com) called LT Auditor+ Server Edition for NetWare, which replaced the Novell Advanced Audit Service (NAAS) added to NetWare 6. LT Auditor+ Server Edition for NetWare is a "light" version of Blue Lance's popular LT Auditor+ that supports only a single NetWare 6.5 server.

If you need support for eDirectory, Windows 2000/NT, or other advanced features, you should consider upgrading to the full version of LT Auditor+ 8 SP4 or use Novell's own Audit 2.

In addition to providing LT Auditor+ Server Edition for NetWare as part of NetWare 6.5, Novell also sells its own full-featured auditing solution known as Novell Audit 2, an upgraded version of Novell Nsure Audit 1.0. Novell Audit 2 is a cross-platform auditing product that supports Novell NetWare 4.2 and above; Windows NT 4.0, 2000, 2000 Server, XP and Server 2003; SUSE Linux Enterprise 8; Solaris 8 and 9; RedHat Linux 7.3, 8, AS, and ES 2.1.

Novell Audit 2 works by using an agent which is used to collect data on an object, such as a server. A secure logging server receives this information from agents on the network. Agents are configured through a simple text-based configuration file known as the logevent. On a NetWare server, this file is called /etc/logevent.cfg; on Linux and Solaris, as /etc/logevent.conf; on Windows, as logevent.cfg in the default Windows folder (usually \Windows or \WinNT). Novell supplies a Java-based Platform Agent Configuration Tool to provide a graphical editor for the logevent file.

Novell Audit 2 can receive log events from Novell eDirectory 6.x, DirXML 2.0, NetMail 3.5 and above, iChain 2.2 SP1, BorderManager 3.8, NetWare NSS and NetWare Traditional file systems.

You can learn more about Novell Audit 2 by visiting its home page at the URL www.novell.com/products/audit/.