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On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:32 PM, sylecn <sylecn at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:03 PM, yangmin zhu <zym0017d at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I want to record a user's operation for later audit purpose. For
>> example, A user may start/reboot/shutdown a VM using nova command from
>> terminal or using the dashboard from browser.
>>
>> How can I record this action and it's result to a log file(or some
>> other database) for later check? And I also want to do this for user's
>> operations in cinder and nova-network, such as creating a volume or
>> assigning a floating ip to a VM.
>>
>> Is there any existing solution for this purpose? If not, where and how
>> should I start to do it myself by modifying the current nova's(or
>> cinder, nova-network) code?
>>
>
> I think this can be done via a WSGI middleware. You can add WSGI
> middleware in
> paste deploy config file (api-paste.erb).  I see there is already a
> logrequest
> filter, you can check what it does and implement something similar.
>
> Another solution will be wrap openstack API with your API and only expose
> your
> API to user. This way you can do any logging you want. You can also log the
> result of the request.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Yuanle
>


I should also mention the notification system. I don't know which kind of
events are published to rabbitmq, but it may have enough information for
logging purpose.

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NotificationSystem


--
Thanks,
Yuanle
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