Disclaimer: all statements about future functionality are subject to change,
and represent intentions only.
That being said: Yes, we are working on File Audit Logging native to Spectrum
Scale. The intention is to provide auditing capabilities in a protocol agnostic
manner that will capture not only audit events that come through protocols but
also GPFS/Scale native file system access events. The audit logs are written
to a specified GPFS/Scale fileset in a format that is both human=-readable and
easily parsable for automated consumption, reporting, or whatever else you
might want to do with it. Currently, we intend to release this capability with
Scale 5.0.
The underlying technology for this is indeed LWE, which as some of you know is
also underneath some other Scale features. The use of LWE allows us to do
auditing very efficiently to minimize performance impact while also allowing
scalability. We do not at this time have plans to expose LWE directly for
end-user consumption -- it needs to be "packaged" in a more consumable way in
order to be generally supportable. However, we do have intentions to expose
other functionality on top of the LWE capability in the future.
Carl Zetie
Offering Manager for Spectrum Scale, IBM
(540) 882 9353 ][ Research Triangle Park
[email protected]
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