Personally, I would have preferred when this option was made available that it was called “Audit Changes”, and that it was enabled by default.<\/p>\n
In the NetWorker management console, with diagnostic mode enabled, this option is available in the first tab of the NetWorker server properties:<\/p>\n With this setting enabled, NetWorker maintains a new log, rap.log<\/em>, within the logs directory. This tracks changes that are made to the NetWorker configuration, as they are made.<\/p>\n Here’s an example:<\/p>\n This tells us that at 18:49:19 on 30 June 2009, user ‘preston’ on host ‘archon’ changed the group ‘Staging Development’, changing ‘autostart’ from ‘Enabled’ to ‘Disabled’.<\/p>\n This means that from the NetWorker level*, you can easily keep track of who<\/em> does what<\/em> to the NetWorker configuration. Interestingly, you can also use this information to also track self-changes<\/em> to the system \u2013 i.e., where NetWorker updates its own configuration. As an example, if you use a license manager, then whenever NetWorker updates\/checks its licenses against the license server, you’ll get entries in the logs such as:<\/p>\n Using the Monitor RAP<\/em> setting allows you to easily monitor changes to the NetWorker configuration, and I believe that every NetWorker site should always<\/em> have this setting enabled.<\/p>\n — Introduced in NetWorker v7 was a feature called “Monitor RAP”. There’s two unfortunate aspects to this setting in the NetWorker…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,21],"tags":[125,597,1254],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networker","category-security","tag-audit","tag-monitor-rap","tag-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"Monitor](\"http:\/\/nsrd.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/monitor-rap.png\" "\\"Monitor")
06\/30\/2009 06:49:19 PM MONITOR_RAP: preston@archon CHANGED 'NSR group'\nresource, Staging Development:\n autostart: Enabled;\n autostart: Disabled;<\/pre>\n
06\/30\/2009 05:10:00 PM MONITOR_RAP: root@nox CHANGED 'NSR license' resource,\nAutochanger Module, 40 slots\/40:\n checksum: \n\"'j&P_-QFc]]D~GIQ\\_[q-jMFx;ajW%U~\\1^UvCm`dJEwg\/\nT#XGMpaVYet\\l]M\\w\\{QQ\\\\\nWuR]\"Ax*@^XX'[ZAG388M)I6fvztWrC9q\"G3PeML!wl\n{P6L0]JU9a9[{WYZ\";\n checksum: \n\"Z$EP_Jts]gYNZV_ATn]AZSxcTorL#f2(\"8\/PTcIYec}K+}\ne_GGsJ$6IC)QLTz\\_aS?[|lc^\\Z\nrN9}A~L@}?b^Vlud-e:SD+Js<U]T!eXR\"y\/,bQHO\n0_CShOlw?U1h\\g?\";<\/pre>\n
\n* Auditing is also available within NMC. For maximum auditing, I always recommend that both options be used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"