Control Informix audit logging

You can configure Informix audit to send audit log records in the format that is proposed by the Cloud Auditing Data Federation (CADF).

Informix sends the audit records as JSON documents to the Audit Logging Service, which is automatically installed when you install Cloud Pak for Data.

For more information, see Audit events for Informix. The list and description of all Informix audit events can also be found on the Informix Server documentation (Audit event codes and fields).

Configuration

You might want to have a finer granular control for the auditing of the Informix service without affecting other services in this IBM Cloud Pak for Data installation.

You can use the informix-1654690049165173-audit-config configmap. In this example, informix-1654690049165173 is the name that you get when you run oc get informixes.

This configmap also contains the adtcfg file, which is mounted into $INFORMIXDIR/aaodir and that you can use to control Informix auditing. With the parameter ADT_CADF_ENABLED set to true, the format of the audit log records is JSON according to CADF.

Other aspects of Informix auditing configuration and controls are unchanged. For more information, see Audit configuration and Overview of auditing with the Informix secure auditing facility.