> Yes, but you may be able to use the SE Linux label to prevent auditing of the 
> process.
Steve, can you please tell me more about how to make use of the
SELinux label here?

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Steve Grubb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 08, 2011 02:38:03 AM Vipin Rathor wrote:
>> My auditd server is getting overwhelm by the logs that it is getting.
>
> This is almost always means the rules are not properly tuned.
>
>> I've configured a remote audit logging via audisp-plugin. Earlier I
>> tried to reduce the amount of logs by optimizing the audit rules. But
>> we want to reduce it further.
>> Here's the list of things that I can think to reduce the overwhelming
>> of logs further:
>> 1. Increase kernel buffer for auditd from 20480 (current) to 99999.
>> 2. Increase the priority of auditd process. Currently 'priority_boost
>> = 10'. Default is 4. I don't know the maximum value (though I've seen
>> someone using 12). Can anyone tell me what's the maximum priority I
>> can give?
>
> Probably 19. This is dictated by the kernel. See the nice(1) command.
>
>
>> 3. Optimize the audit messages further:
>>   a. Exclude single file (like /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm ) from
>> being audited. This can be done with following rule (Thanks to
>> Steve!):
>> -a exit,never -F path=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm
>>   b. Exclude specific processes by their PIDs. This will be tricky as
>> we will need to keep track of PIDs incase of process
>> start/stop/restart etc.
>
> Yes, but you may be able to use the SE Linux label to prevent auditing of the 
> process.
>
> -Steve
>



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