Enabling file audit logging on an owning cluster for a file system that is remotely mounted
Use this information to enable file audit logging on an owning cluster for a file system that is remotely mounted.
Perform the following steps to enable file audit logging for a remotely mounted file system:
- Make sure that both the accessing and owning clusters are on IBM Storage Scale 5.0.2 minimum release level.
- Make sure that the file systems that are going to be remotely mounted are at IBM Storage Scale 5.0.2 or higher.
- Follow the instructions in Accessing a remote GPFS file system.
- Validate that the accessing cluster has the required packages installed by referring to Requirements, limitations, and support for file audit logging.
- If not already enabled, enable file audit logging in the owning cluster by following the instructions in Configuring file audit logging.
- At this point, file audit logging should be logging all file system activity from the accessing cluster nodes that have fulfilled the previous steps.
- The file audit logs will be owned and located on the owning cluster. Run mmaudit <device> list on the owning cluster for details.
Note: The file audit logging producers on the accessing cluster will log debug messages to the
local /var/adm/ras/mmaudit.log file. But the overall file audit logging status
and logging can only be obtained from the owning cluster. For more information, see File audit logging issues.