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  2. NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide
  3. Auditing NetBackup operations
  4. Send audit events to system logs
NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide

Send audit events to system logs

You can send NetBackup audit events to system logs. Ensure that you have the following permissions to carry out this task:

  • View permission on the Security > Security events UI

  • View, Create, Update, and Delete permissions on the NetBackup management > NetBackup hosts UI

To send audit events to system logs

  1. On the left, select Security > Security events.
  2. On the top right, click Audit event settings.
  3. Enable Send the audit events to the system logs option.
  4. In the Audit event categories dialog box, select the audit categories for which you want to send the audit events to the system logs.

    To send audit events for all audit categories to the system logs, select the Audit event categories check box.

  5. Click Save.

    You can view NetBackup audit events in the system logs. For example:

    On a Windows system, use Windows Event Viewer to view NetBackup audit events.

    On a Linux system, you can view the system logs on the configured location.

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