Audit Event Investigation in NIOS (3507)

Scenario

The zone younglings.sw stopped working at around 11:50 AM UTC on 7th June 2023. Investigate the issue and find details about this incident.

Estimate Completion Time

15 to 20 minutes

Credentials

Course References

3008: Troubleshooting Basics in NIOS

3007: Troubleshooting Methodology

Lab Initiation

Access jump-desktop

Once the lab is deployed, you can access the virtual machines required to complete this lab activity. To initiate the lab, click on the jump-desktop tile and login to the Linux UI:

Username: training

Password: infoblox

Initiate lab

To initiate the lab, double-click the Launch Lab icon on the Desktop.

Choose the lab number from the list and click OK.

After clicking OK, you will see a pop-up message with a brief description of the lab task. If the description looks correct, click Yes to continue lab initiation.

Lab initiation will take a couple of minutes to finish.

Once complete, you will see another pop-up message with the login credentials and the URL for the Grid Manager’s User Interface. Note that the credentials may differ from those from prior labs.

Tasks

For all tasks in this lab, please use the support bundle placed on the desktop of the jump-desktop. It is named 3507-supportBundle.tar.gz.

Task 1: Find details about the incident from the support bundle logs

1. Who made the change and what changed to cause the issue?

2. What access method (GUI/API) was used to make the change?

3. Which user created the user account that made the change?

Solution

Task 1: Find details about the incident from the support bundle logs

1. Who made the change and what changed to cause the issue?
   Answer: Anakin user deleted the Authoritative zone younglings.sw
   audit.log
   2023-06-07 11:46:43.365Z [anakin]: Deleted AuthZone younglings.sw DnsView=default exclude_subobj=True

2. What access method (GUI/API) was used to make the change?
   Answer: GUI
   audit.log
   2023-06-07 11:45:01.325Z [anakin]: Login_Allowed - - to=AdminConnector ip=10.35.22.10 auth=LOCAL group=Not\040Master apparently_via=GUI

3. Which user created the user account that made the change?
   Answer: Obiwan
   audit.log
   2022-09-02 11:18:24.032Z [[Obiwan]: Created AdminMember anakin: Set extensible_attributes=[],auth_type="LOCAL",ca_certificate_issuer=NULL,comment="",disabled=False,email="",groups=[AdminGroup:.Not\040Master],name="anakin",password="******",ssh_keys=[],use_ssh_keys=False