[openstack-dev] [OSSG] hardening openstack

Matt Joyce matt.joyce at cloudscaling.com
Fri Nov 2 06:55:10 UTC 2012


For the record, ceilometer provides a perfect mechanism for recording audit
logs of events.

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Bryan D. Payne <bdpayne at acm.org> wrote:

> Some of the log handling may end up being deployment specific.
> Nevertheless, this is a very good idea.
>
> One thing that the OpenStack projects can do to help with logging
> would be to cleanup the log messages in all of the projects such that
> they provide useful information to someone that was aggregating all of
> the logs as you describe.  Last time I checked, there was lots of work
> to be done there.
>
> -bryan
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Bhandaru, Malini K
> <malini.k.bhandaru at intel.com> wrote:
> > From out of
> http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/factsheets/rhel5-pamphlet-i731.pdf
> > Review system and application logs on a routine basis.
> > Dend logs to a dedicated log server. This prevents intruders from easily
> avoiding detection by modifying the local logs.
> >
> > Down the road this is something we should consider. Might not want to
> have to go over the network for every log item, but do so in some digest
> mode. Alternately, create a VM for logging on the host nodes, a
> nova-log-vm, a quantum-log-vm .. and log to that for the respective
> openstack service. Needs more thought.
> >
> > Regards
> > Malini
> >
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