Configure Tracking of Administrator Activity
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Configure Tracking of Administrator Activity
Track activity of firewall administrators on the web
interface or CLI for auditing purposes.
Track administrator activity on the firewall
web interface and CLI to achieve real time reporting of activity
across your firewall. If you have reason to believe an administrator
account is compromised, you have a full history of where this administrator
account navigated throughout the web interface or what operational
commands they executed so you can analyze in detail and respond
to all actions the compromised administrator took.
When an
event occurs, an audit log is generated and forwarded to the specified syslog
server each time an administrator navigates through the web interface
or when an operational command is
executed in the CLI. An audit log is generated for each navigation
or commend executed. Take for example if you want to create a new
address object. An audit log is generated when you click on Objects,
and a second audit log is generated when you then click on Addresses.
Audit
logs are only visible as syslogs forwarded to your syslog server
and cannot be viewed in the firewall web interface. Audit logs can
only be forwarded to a syslog server, cannot be forwarded to Cortex
Data Lake (CDL), and are not stored locally on the firewall.
- Configure a syslog server profile to forward audit logs of administrator activity on the firewall.This step is required to successfully store audit logs for tracking administrator activity on the firewall.
- Log in to the firewall web interface.Configure a syslog server profile.Configure tracking of administrator activity.
- Select and edit the Logging and Reporting Settings.Select Log Export and Reporting.In the Log Admin Activity section, configure what administrator activity to track.
- Operational Commands—Generate an audit log when an administrator executes an operational or debug command in the CLI or an operational command triggered from the web interface. See the CLI Operational Command Hierarchy for a full list of PAN-OS operational and debug commands.
- UI Actions—Generate an audit log when an administrator navigates throughout the web interface. This includes navigation between configuration tabs, as well as individual objects within a tab.For example, an audit log is generated when an administrator navigates from the ACC to the Policies tab. Additionally, an audit log is generated when an administrator navigates from to .
- Syslog Server—Select a target syslog server profile to forward audit logs.
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