We currently have our security logs set to 100MB. Depending on the domain
controller the logs can take anywhere from 12 hours to a couple of weeks to
"roll". Our data center servers tend to roll over every 20 hours during
normal every day operation but when we are getting pounded by authenticating
worms and such it goes to about every 12 hours. 


Our auditing is

Account logon events    failure
Account management      success/failure
Logons          failure
Object access           none
Policy changes  success/failure
Privilege use           Success/failure
Process tracking        none
System events           success/failure

   joe


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Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 10:25 AM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] How large are your security logs on your DC's?

We have auditing enabled on all our servers, with the Security log set to
5MB on member servers.  We upped that number to 25MB on DC's because the log
was filling so fast, then again to 50MB, but it's still only maintaining
about 3-4 days worth of logs (we have it configured to prune as needed).  We
have plenty of disk space, but I know the more we track, the harder it is to
even open the log, especially remotely.  I'm curious how others have their
logs setup.

We need to be able to track when users have logged on or off and when
changes are made to policies and accounts.

The audit settings are (I'm doing this from memory; I'm not at work):

Account logon events    success/failure
Account management      success/failure
Logons          success/failure
Object access           none
Policy changes  success/failure
Privilege use           failure
Process tracking        none
System events           success/failure

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