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Hi sylecn,
Thank you for your information, I will then do more investigations
about the notification system.


Thank you!
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zym

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:39 PM, sylecn <sylecn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:32 PM, sylecn <sylecn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:03 PM, yangmin zhu <zym0017d at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks,
>> Yuanle
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> 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.
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> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NotificationSystem
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> Thanks,
> Yuanle