cloud services audit events

Every operation that is performed using cloud services is audited and recorded to meet the regulatory requirements.

The audit details are saved in this file: /var/MCStore/ras/audit/audit_events.json. You can parse this JSON file by using some tools and use it for troubleshooting purposes. For the complete list of events, see Table 1. This is an example of the audit entry that is added to the JSON file after you successfully execute the mmcloudgateway account create command.

{"typeURI":"http://schemas.dmtf.org/cloud/audit/1.0/event","eventType":"activity","id":
"b4e9a5a9-0bf7-45ee-9e93-b6f825781328","eventTime":"2017-08-21T18:46:10.439 UTC","action":
"create/create_cloudaccount","outcome":"success","initiator":{"id":"b22ec254-d645-43c4-a402-3e15757d8463",
"typeURI":"data/security/account/admin","name":"root","host":{"address":"192.0.2.0"}},"target":
{"id":"58347894-6a10-4218-a66d-357e4a3f4aaf","typeURI":"service/storage/object/account","name":
"tct.cloudstorageaccesspoint"},"observer":{"id":"target"},"attachments":[{"content":"account-name=
swift-account, cloud-type=openstack-swift, username=admin, tenant=admin, src-keystore-path=null, 
src-alias-name=null, src-keystore-type=null","name":"swift-account","contentType":"text"}]}
Table 1. Audit events
S.No Events
1 Add a cloud account – Success
2 Add a cloud account – Failure
3 Create a cloud storage access point – Success
4 Create a cloud storage access point – Failure
5 Create a cloud service – Success
6 Create a cloud service – Failure
7 Create a container pair – Success
8 Create a container pair – Failure
9 Create a key manager – Success
10 Create a key manager – Failure
11 Update a cloud account – Success
12 Update a cloud account - Failure
13 Update cloud storage access point – Success
14 Update cloud storage access point – Failure
15 Update cloud service – Success
16 Update cloud service – Failure
17 Update container pair – Success
18 Update container pair – Failure
19 Update key manager – Success
20 Update key manager – Failure
21 Delete a cloud account – Success
22 Delete a cloud account - Failure
23 Delete cloud storage access point – Success
24 Delete cloud storage access point – Failure
25 Delete cloud service – Success
26 Delete cloud service – Failure
27 Delete container pair – Success
28 Delete container pair – Failure
29 Rotate key manager – Success
30 Rotate key manager – Failure
31 Clean up orphan objects from the orphan table
32 Cloud destroy – Success
33 Cloud destroy – Failure
34 Export files – Success
35 Export files – Failure
36 Import files – Success
37 Import files -Failure
38 Migrate files – Success
39 Migrate files – Failure
40 Recall files – Success
41 Recall files – Failure
42 Remove cloud objects – Success
43 Remove cloud objects – Failure
44 Reconcile files – Success
45 Reconcile files – Failure
46 Rebuild DB – Success
47 Rebuild DB - Failure
48 Restore files – Success
49 Restore files – Failure
50 Run policy (lwe destroy) – Success
51 Run policy (lwe destroy) – Failure
52 Config set – Success
53 Config set - Failure