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This field is obsolete.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)