Audits and Logs

This section contains the following topics:

Audit Configuration Archive and Software Management Changes ()

The window displays changes made to devices using the Configuration Archive and Software Management features. To view these changes, choose . lists the most recent devices changes including the type of change (Configuration Archive, Software Image Management).

You can also view the most recent changes for a device in the Recent Changes tab of its Device 360 view.

Audit Changes Made By Users (Change Audit)

supports managing change audit data in the following ways:

Generate a Change Audit Report

The Change Audit report lists the actions that users have performed using the features. The following table provides examples of what may appear in a Change Audit report.

Feature

Examples

Device management

Device '209.165.202.159' Added

User management

User ‘mmjones' added

Administration

Logout successful for user jlsmith from 209.165.202.129

Authentication Failed. Login failed for user fjclark from 209.165.202.125

Configuration changes

CLI Commands : ip access-list standard testremark test

Monitoring policies

Monitoring Template 'IF Outbound Errors (Threshold)' Created

Configuration templates

Configuration Template 'Add-Host-Name-IOS-Test' Created

Jobs

'Show-Users-On-Device-IOS_1' job of type Config Deploy - Deploy View scheduled.

Inventory

Logical File '/bootflash/tracelogs/inst_cleanup_R0-0.log.19999.20150126210302' deleted.

You can schedule a Change Audit report to run on a regular basis and, if desired, can e-mail the results to you. You can also forward this information in a Change Audit notification (see Enable Change Audit Notifications and Configure Syslog Receivers).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Reports > Report Launch Pad, then choose Compliance > Change Audit.

Step 2

Click New to configure a new report.

Step 3

In the Settings area, enter the report criteria (time frame, when to start the report, and so forth).

Step 4

If you want to schedule the report to run at a later time, enter your settings in the Schedule area. You can also specify an e-mail address that the report should be sent to.

Step 5

If you want to run the report immediately, click Run at the bottom of the window.

The Report Run Result lists all users and the changes they made during the specified time period.

Enable Change Audit Notifications and Configure Syslog Receivers

If desired, you can configure to send a change audit notification when changes are made to the system. These changes include device inventory and configuration changes, configuration template and monitoring template operations, and user operations such as logins and logouts and user account changes.

You can configure to:

  • Forward changes as change audit notifications to a Java Message Server (JMS).

  • Send these messages to specific syslog receivers.

If you configure syslog receivers but do not receive syslogs, you may need to change the anti-virus or firewall settings on the destination syslog receiver to permit reception of syslog messages.

Procedure

Step 1

Select Administration > Settings > System Settings, then choose Mail and Notification > Change Audit Notification.

Step 2

Select the Enable Change Audit Notification check box to enable notifications.

Step 3

If you want to send the messages to specific syslog receivers:

  1. Click the Add button (+) to specify a syslog receiver.

  2. In the Syslog Receivers area, enter the IP address, protocol , and port number of the syslog receiver.

    You can repeat these steps as needed to specify additional syslog receivers.

Step 4

Click Save.

Note 

It is recommended to restart the server for the records to be reflected in secure tls log.

View Change Audit Details

Procedure

Step 1

Log in to as an administrator

Step 2

Choose Monitor > Tools > Change Audit Dashboard.

The Change Audit Dashboard displays the network audit logs and change audit data of device management, user management, configuration template management, device community and credential changes, and inventory changes of devices. The Change Audit report and Change Audit dashboard display the details irrespective of the virtual domain you are logged in.

Audit Actions Executed from the GUI (System Audit)


Note
sends all change audit notifications in XML format to the topic ChangeAudit.All. You must be subscribed to ChangeAudit.All to receive the notifications.

The System Audit window lists all GUI pages that users have accessed. To view a System Audit, choose Administration > Settings > System Audit.

The following table shows some of the information you can find from the System Audit page using the quick filter. To enable the quick filter, choose Quick Filter from the Show drop-down list.

Find actions performed:

Do the following:

By a specific user

Enter the username in the Username quick filter field

By all users in a user group

Enter the group name in the User Group quick filter field

On devices in a specific virtual domain

Enter the virtual domain name in the Active Virtual Domain quick filter field

By the web GUI root user

Select Root User Logs from the Show drop-down list

On a specific device

Enter the IP address in the IP Address quick filter field

On a specific day

Enter the day in the Audit Time quick filter filed (in the format yyyy–mmm–dd)

System Logs

provides three classes of logs which are controlled by choosing Administration > Settings > Logging.

Logging Type

Description

See:

General

Captures information about actions in the system.

View and Manage General System Logs

SNMP

Captures interactions with managed devices.

Enable SNMP Traces and Adjust SNMP Log Settings (Levels, Size)

Syslog

Forwards audit logs (as syslogs) to another recipient.

Forward System Audit Logs As Syslogs

View and Manage General System Logs

You can view system logs after downloading them to your local server.

View the Logs for a Specific Job

Procedure
Step 1

Choose Administration > Dashboards > Job Dashboard .

Step 2

Choose a job type from the Jobs pane, then select a job instance from the Jobs window.

Step 3

At the top left of the Job instance window, locate the Logs field, then click Download.

Step 4

Open or save the file as needed.

Adjust General Log File Settings and Default Sizes

By default, logs all error, informational, and trace messages generated by all managed devices. It also logs all SNMP messages and Syslogs that it receives. You can adjust these settings, changing logging levels for debugging purposes.

To do the following:

From Administration > Settings > Logging:

Change the size of logs and the number of logs saved

Adjust the Log File Settings.

Note 
Change these settings with caution to avoid impacting the system.

Change the logging level for specific modules

In the General Log Settings, select the files and the desired level, and click Save . For example, from the Message Level drop-down list, choose one of the following as current logging level:

  • Error—Captures error logs on the system.

  • Information—Captures informational logs on the system.

  • Trace—Reproduces problems of managed devices on the system so the details can be captured in the logs.

You will have to restart for the changes to take effect.

Download log files for troubleshooting purposes

In the Download Log File area, click Download .

E-mail log files (for example, to the Cisco Technical Center)

Enter a comma-separated list of e-mail IDs and click Send .

Download and E-Mail Log Files for Troubleshooting Purposes


Note
This procedure sets and log message levels to Trace. Be sure to return the log message levels to their original setting so system performance is not impacted.
Procedure
Step 1

Choose Administration > Settings > Logging, then choose General Logging Options.

Step 2

Note the setting in the Message Level drop-down list because you will need to reset it later.

Step 3

In the Enable Log Modules area, select the desired Log Modules.

Log Modules

Description

AAA

This log module enables the ncs-0-0.log, nms_sys_error.log, usermgmt.log, and XmpUserMgmtRbac.log files. The logs are printed when the user logs in. The AAA mode changes like local, tacacs, radius, and sso mode changes are performed.

Apic

This log module enables the ifm_apic.log file which captures the log that occurs when a PNP profile gets synced against APIC.

APICPIIntegration

This log module enables the apic_pi_integration.log file that captures the logs when Prime Infrastructure profiles are synced in APICEM as sites.

AppNav

This log module enables the appNav.log file to capture the logs when saving the ACL configuration in a template, deleting ACL from a template, creating and updating WAAS interface, and when creating, updating, and deleting the service node group and controller group.

Assurance AppClassifier

This log module enables the assurance_appclassifier.log file that captures information related to NBAR classification on incoming AVC/Wireless Netflow data. This is for application classification/identification for flow record, as a part of the netflow processing in Prime Infrastructure.

Assurance Netflow

This log module enables the assurance_netflow.log file that captures information pertaining to the processing of incoming Netflow data being sent from various Netflow devices to Prime Infrastructure. It logs information related to netflow processing performed on flow exports received on UDP port 9991.

Assurance PfR

This log module enables the assurance_pfr.log file that captures information related to the PfRMonitoring process.

Assurance WirelessUser

This log module enables the assurance_wirelessuser.log file that captures the information when the WirelessUser job runs to read the user data and populate it in the memory caches that are added by the WIRELESS_ASSURANCE trigger.

Assurance WSA

This log module enables the wsa_collector.log, access_log , assurance_wsa.log, and error_log files that captures information while WLC processes data from device to Prime Infrastructure. Logs are generated as a part of the Wireless Controller data collection.

AVC Utilities

This log module enables the aems_avc_utils.log file. The AVC configuration feature-specific utility flow logs are generated as a part of this component.

CIDS Device Logs

This log module captures information related to device pack operation of few devices that are not migrated to XDE.

Operations Center Logs

This log module enables the cluster.core.log file that captures information related to management Prime Infrastructure servers.

Collection

This log module captures the information of the dashlet that is launched to check the readiness of a device.

Common Helper

This log module captures the XMP common related information.

Configuration

This log module enables the ifm_config.log file when the templates such as CLI, Composite, and MBC are deployed to the devices. The service business logic execution debug logs are captured.

Configuration Archive

This log module enables the ifm_config_archive.log and ifm_config_archive_core.log files. The logs are captured based on the selected log level in GUI and logs are logged for all the Configuration Archive module supported operations like Configuration Archive Collection, Configuration Archive Overwrite, Configuration Archive Rollback, and Configuration Archive Deploy.

Configuration Archive Core

This log module enables the ifm_config_archive_core.log file which captures the information on the interaction between service layer and device pack while performing the operations like Configuration Archive Collection, Configuration Archive Overwrite, Configuration Archive Rollback, and Configuration Archive Deploy.

Configuration Templates

This log module enables the ifm_config.log and ifm_template.log files. These files are logged when a System template, Custome CLI template, Composite Template, or Feature Template is deployed to a device and the deploy job is created. The logs are captured in based on the selected log level [INFO, DEBUG, TRACE] in GUI and are logged for all the Configuration templates that is deployed to the devices.

Container Management

This log module enables the logs for ifm_container.log file. This file is logged when the container management performs the life cycle operations (Install, Activate, Uninstall, and Deactivate) of the virtual appliances.

Credential Management

This log module enables the logs from NMS_SysOut.log file.

Credential Profile

This log module enables the ifm_credential_profile.log file that captures the profile creation, deletion, and profile update information.

DA

This log module enables the ifm_da.log and da_daemon.log files.This module captures the information such as SNMP polling, NAM polling and Packet Capture work flows.

Database

This log module enables the rman.log and db_migration.log files.

Datacenter

This log module enables the datacenterevent.log and ifm_datacenter.log files. These files contain debug information while adding, editing, and deleting devices (Discovery Sources, UCS, Nexus). Inventory module logs also contain the debug information about Datacenter devices.

Device Credential Verification

This log module enables the XDE.log file.

Discovery

This log module enables the ifm_discovery.log and existenceDiscovery.log files that captures logs while creating, editing, and deleting discovery settings or discovery job, and running discovery job.

DSM

This log module captures the information related to Virtual Inventory Discovery Source Manager.

Fault Management

This log module enables the ifm_fault.log, xmp_correlation.log, and xmp_syslog.log files.

Faults

This log module enables the ifm_fault.log, xmp_correlation.log, and xmp_syslog.log files.

Firewall and AVC Configuration

This log module enables the aems_config.log file that captures the AVC, ZBFW, QoS, and NAT configuration details.

Firewall and AVC Inventory

This log module enables the aems_zbfw_ice_post_processors.log file that catures the device inventory time read on AVC, ZBFW, QoS, and NAT configuration.

Firewall and AVC REST API

This module enables the aems_config_access_layer.log file that captures the REST API call details for AVC, ZBFW, QoS, NAT, and PPM features.

Firewall and AVC Utilities

This log module enables the aems_utils.log file that captures the common utility calls in AVC/ZBFW/QoS, NAT and PPM features.

Firewall Utilities

This log module enables the aems_zbfw_utils.log file that captures the ZBFW utility calls.

Grouping

This log module enables the ifm_grouping.log, grouping-spring.log files. It captures data while adding, editing, and deleting groups, and adding and deleting members. It also captures the log while importing or exporting groups in CSV format and creating port groups, editing, and deleting port groups.

Inventory

This log module enables the inventory.log, ifm_inventory.log,existenceInventory.log, and xde.log files. It captures the data while adding, editing, and deleting devices and performing inventory collection.

Mobility

This log module captures the information related to the mobility anchor devices that are added to the server.

Monitor

This log module captures the information related to the APIs that appears while launching the monitor dashlets such as Top N Memory and Top N CPU.

MSAP

This log module enables the ncs.log file. It captures the data related to MSE High Avaliabilty actions such as Proxy configuration and BBX configuration.

MSE

This log module enables the ncs.log file. It captures the data related to Mobility Service Engine actvities such as adding, editing, and deleting MSE and Controller and SiteMap synchronization with MSE.

nbifw

This log module allows you to change the logging level of the NBI API framework. You can view the information in the xmpNbiFw.log​ file.

ncs_nbi

This log module allows you to change the logging level of the Statistics NBI Services. You can view the information in the ncs_nbi.log file.

Network Topology

This log module enables the nms-topology.log and xmptopology.log files. This log module captures logs related to the Maps > Network Topology page. Information such as adding and deleting links between devices are captured.

nfvos

This log module is used for tracking esa dna integration process.

Nice

This log module captures the topology related information after adding a device.

Notifications

This log module captures information from the ncs-0-0.log, ncs_nb.log and alarm_notification_policy.log files.

PA

This log module enables the ifm_sam.log and sam_daemon.log files. The information such as application and service, dashboard and dashlet service API calls, NAM configuration, NAM polling, and Packet Capture feature work flow are captured.

Ping

This log module captures information related to network device polling interval job. Once the job is completed, each device in the system receives a ping.

Plug and Play

You can enable this module to capture the information related to PNP profile creation and provisioning, bootstrap initial configuration, APIC EM sync timeframe. The logs are captured in the ifm_pnp.log and ifm_apic.log files.

Protocol Pack Management

This module enables the aems_ppm_service.log , ifm_container.log , jobManager.log and ifm_jobscheduler.log files. This logs the information related to protocol pack import, distribution of protocol packs, and the jobs details.

Reports

You can enable this module to view the report related queries, memory consumption, and time frame of report generation.

Smart Licensing

This log module enables the ifm_smartagent.log and smart_call_home.log files. The ifm_smartagent.log file contains licensing logs related to smart licensing and smart_call_home.log contains call home logs that captures information transmitted to CSSM (Cisco Smart Software Manager). These logs are captured in Periodic events and User action based events.

SWIM

You can enable this module to log the Software Image Management module logs in the ifm_swim.log file. The logs will be captured as per the selected log level in GUI. It logs the information related to the Software Image Management operations like Software Image Recommendation, Software Image Upgrade Analysis, Software Image Import, Software Image Distribution, Software Image Activation, and Software Image Commit.

System Monitoring

This log module enables the ifm_sysmon.log file. This logs information pertaining to the rule start time and end time as well as the operations performed in between.

ThreadManager

This log module enables the xmp _threadmanager.log file that captures the hybernate related information.

Threshold

You can enable this module to view the details of the events processed by the Threshold Monitor.

TrustSec

You can enable this module to capture the TrustSec readiness devices, devices capable for enforcement, device classification, and capable devices information. The list is displayed in Service-TrustSec-Readiness. You can view the logs in the ifm_trustsec.log file.

Wlan AVC Configuration

This log module enables the aems_config_wlan.log file to view the WLAN configuration work flow related information.

XMLMED

You can enable this module to capture the SOAP requests and responses. You can also view these logs in the ncs.log files.
Step 4

Select Trace from the Message Level drop-down list.

Step 5

Reproduce the problem on the system so the details can be captured in the logs.

Step 6

In the Download Log File area, click Download. The download zip file will have the name:

NCS-hostname-logs-yy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss.

The file includes an HTML file that lists all files included in the zip file.

The information captured in the ifm_da.log and ifm_sam.log files are now split-up into the accompanying classes:

  • assurance_wirelessuser.log

  • assurance_pfr.log

  • assurance_netflow.log

  • assurance_appclassifier.log

The ifm_da.log file logs the information related to the Netflow devices and their respective pcaps, post device inclusion on . The assurance_wirelessuser.log file logs the information that is captured when the WirelessUser job runs to read the user data and populate in the memory caches that are added by WIRELESS_ASSURANCE. The assurance_pfr.log file stores the PfR monitoring related information. The assurance_netflow.log file logs the processing of incoming Netflow data being sent from various Netflow devices to . The assurance_appclassifier.log file stores the logs for NBAR classification on incoming AVC/Wireless Netflow data.

Step 7

In the E-Mail Log File area, enter a comma-separated list of e-mail IDs.

Step 8

Revert to the original setting in the Message Level drop-down list.

Forward System Audit Logs As Syslogs

Before you begin
To work with Forward System Audit Logs as Syslogs, the user must configure Enable Change Audit Notifications and Configure Syslog Receivers.
Procedure
Step 1

Choose Administration > Settings > Logging, then choose Syslog Logging Options.

Step 2

Select the Enable Syslog check box to enable collecting and processing system logs.

Step 3

In the Syslog Host field, enter the IP address of the destination server from which the message is to be transmitted.

Step 4

From the Syslog Facility drop-down list, choose any of the eight local use facilities for sending syslog messages. The local use facilities are not reserved and are available for general use.

Step 5

Click Save.

Enable SNMP Traces and Adjust SNMP Log Settings (Levels, Size)

Enable SNMP tracing to access more detailed information about the packets sent and received through SNMP. You may want to do this when troubleshooting, such as when a trap is dropped.

To make the following changes, choose Administration > Settings > Logging, then choose SNMP Logging Options.

If you want to:

Do the following:

Enable SNMP tracing on specific devices

In the SNMP Log Settings area:

  1. Select the Enable SNMP Trace check box and the Display Values check boxes.
  2. Enter the IP addresses of the devices you want to trace and click Save.

Change the size of logs and number of logs saved

In the SNMP Log File Settings area:

Note 

Be careful when you change these settings so that you do not impact system performance (by saving too much data).

  1. Adjust the maximum number of files and file size.
  2. Restart for your changes to take effect. See Stop and Restart.