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To log events that sasadm generates by SAS Management Console.

Malena2020 — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:25:17 GMT

Hi all,

I would like to register events related to parameters change that sasadm performs in SAS Management Console,
For example, when modifying a parameter as KEEPALIVE through the SAS Management Console, does exist any log where this event could be recorded?

Thanks in advance!

Re: To log events that sasadm generates by SAS Management Console.

SASKiwi — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:14:19 GMT

I guess you are looking for an audit trail of SAS metadata changes. Unfortunately I don't think such functionality exists. It is possible to run reports on SAS metadata, but the data structure is so complicated that any attempt to compare versions of metadata repositories would be like a cure that is worse than the disease...

Re: To log events that sasadm generates by SAS Management Console.

AnandVyas — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 06:35:02 GMT

Hi @Malena2020

SAS Metadata has logging facility which includes loggers related to security auditing events.

You can find detailed information about these in the link below:

https://go.documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=bisag&docsetTarget=n0pitzrsxlrvyfn1o967czb2oww2.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en

Audit.Meta.Security is the parent logger which is part of the file logconfig.trace.xml under <sas-config>/Lev1/SASMeta/MetadataServer/ (For UNIX). By default this file isn't referenced for Metadata logging instead it refers to logconfig.xml

You can change this by modifying the parameter "-logconfigloc" in the sasv9.cfg file under the same directory or you can rename the original logconfig.xml file to logconfig.xml.original and logconfig.trace.xml to logconfig.xml. It requires restart of SAS Metadata server in order to take effect.

Kindly NOTE this would increase the Metadata server log files size due to extra logging enabled.

Hope this helps!