How to view backup files of CA Control Minder Audit log.

Products

• CA Virtual Privilege Manager
• CA Privileged Identity Management Endpoint (PIM)
• CA Privileged Access Manager (PAM)

Issue/Introduction

How to edit/read backup files of CA Control Minder Audit log.

Example file name - seos.audit.bak.26-Mar-2013-00:00:00

The audit log for CA Control Minder is (seos.audit) and the size of the file can be controlled by the audit_size token at logmgr section in the seos.ini file on UNIX machine.

Location is /opt/CA/AccessControl

# vi seos.ini ..
[logmgr]...
; Minimum Value: 50KB
audit_size = 10240 (Default )

Resolution

Follow the steps to read the .bak files created by CA Control Minder.

1. Log in as root
2. Go to the following path (/opt/CA/AccessControl/log )
3. Give the path of seaudit location (/opt/CA/ AccessControl /bin/seaudit) and add
   the .bak file name that you are trying to extract.
   
   root@Endpoint # /opt/CA/AccessControl/bin/seaudit -a -fn seos.audit.bak.12-Apr-2013-00:00:00
   
   
4. Check the screenshot: