The audit service provider is used to format the audit
data object that was sent by the audit event factory. In addition
to the default audit service provider, you may use a third party implementation
as your audit service provider.
Before you begin
Before configuring the audit service provider, enable global
security in your environment.
About this task
This task configures the audit service provider used to record
generated audit records.
Procedure
- Click .
- Click New and then select Third party emitter.
- Enter the unique name that should be associated with this
audit service provider in the Name field.
- Enter the Third party emitter class name.
- Enter the Event formatting module class name. This
field specifies the class used to format the generic event into a
format that is specific to the audit service provider implementation.
For example, your implementation might have an event formatting class
that takes the generic event and translates it into XML data.
- Select the filters to be used by this audit service provider. The Selectable filter list consists of a list of the configured
filters that have been configured and are currently enabled.
- Select the filters that should be audited from the Selectable
filter list.
- Click Add >> to add the selected filters
to the Enabled filter list.
- Optional: Enter any custom properties that
you included in your third party emitter code.
- Click Apply.
Results
After completing these steps, your audit data will be sent
to the specified repository in the format required by that repository.
What to do next
After creating an audit service provider, the audit service
provider must be associated with an audit event factory provide the
audit data objects to the audit service provider. Next you should
configure an audit event factory.