Secure Mobile Access 12.5 Administration Guide

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Management Audit Log

An individual with administrative privileges can review the AMC audit log to view the history of configuration changes made to the appliance. This log provides a comprehensive audit history of configuration changes made in AMC by administrators.

Management audit logs are stored on disk in the file /var/log/aventail/consoleaudit.log and contain these parameters:

[level] [date] [time] [username] [message]

This example illustrates a management audit log file entry:

Info 6/3/2025 00:31:02 admin Applied configuration changes

Management Console Audit log fields
Field Description

Level (Severity)

The message severity levels are:

  • Error—A problem caused the server to shut down or fail to communicate with another component. A name resolution problem at startup is logged at this level.

  • Warning—Something unexpected occurred that does not adversely affect the operation of the server. For example, a single failed attempt to access a RADIUS server is logged at the Info level, but if all attempts fail, an entry is added to the log file at the Warning level.

  • Info—A normal event that you might want to track; for example, a specific user has logged in, or has matched a given access control rule.

  • Verbose—Like an Info message, this level identifies normal operations, but includes the steps in a process. For example, when processing access control rules a message for each non-match is at the Verbose level, while a matched rule is identified as Info.
Date/Time

The date and time at which the request was received by the appliance.

Example: 6/3/25 00:31:02
User name

If the user has logged in, this field displays the user’s name.

If a user has not yet authenticated or is accessing content that does not require authentication (such as the WorkPlace login page), this field contains a dash (-).

Example: admin
Message

Describers the configuration changes that were made to the appliance.

Example:Applied configuration changes