AUDITSTAT(8) Maintenance Commands and Procedures AUDITSTAT(8)
NAME
auditstat - display kernel audit statistics
SYNOPSIS
auditstat [
-c count] [
-h numlines] [
-i interval] [
-n]
[
-T u | d ] [
-v]
DESCRIPTION
auditstat displays kernel audit statistics. The fields displayed are as
follows:
aud The total number of audit records processed by the
audit(2) system call.
ctl This field is obsolete.
drop The total number of audit records that have been dropped. Records
are dropped according to the kernel audit policy. See
auditon(2),
AUDIT_CNT policy for details.
enq The total number of audit records put on the kernel audit queue.
gen The total number of audit records that have been constructed (not
the number written).
kern The total number of audit records produced by user processes (as
a result of system calls).
mem The total number of Kbytes of memory currently in use by the
kernel audit module.
nona The total number of non-attributable audit records that have been
constructed. These are audit records that are not attributable
to any particular user.
rblk The total number of times that the audit queue has blocked
waiting to process audit data.
tot The total number of Kbytes of audit data written to the audit
trail.
wblk The total number of times that user processes blocked on the
audit queue at the high water mark.
wrtn The total number of audit records written. The difference between
enq and
wrtn is the number of outstanding audit records on the
audit queue that have not been written.
OPTIONS
-c count Display the statistics a total of
count times. If
count is
equal to zero, statistics are displayed indefinitely. A
time interval must be specified.
-h numlines Display a header for every
numlines of statistics printed.
The default is to display the header every 20 lines. If
numlines is equal to zero, the header is never displayed.
-i interval Display the statistics every
interval where
interval is
the number of seconds to sleep between each collection.
-n Display the number of kernel audit events currently
configured.
-T u |
d Display a time stamp.
Specify
u for a printed representation of the internal
representation of time. See
time(2). Specify
d for
standard date format. See
date(1).
-v Display the version number of the kernel audit module
software.
EXIT STATUS
auditstat returns
0 upon success and
1 upon failure.
SEE ALSO
audit(2),
auditon(2),
attributes(7),
auditconfig(8),
praudit(8) March 6, 2017
AUDITSTAT(8)