Novell® Audit provides secure logging, reporting, monitoring, and notification capabilities. Through integration with Novell Audit, the BorderManager® HTTP proxy supports logging of all events previously reported in the Common and Extended log formats, in addition to the categorizations of each Web request as provided by third-party URL database products from partners such as SurfControl* and N2H2*.
Novell Audit is an additional logging method apart from the other legacy logging methods such as Common, Extended and Indexed logging. However, Novell Audit has several key advantages, including:
Security: Novell Audit events are signed and chained, which means that you have forensically viable evidence of all HTTP proxy activity. Novell Audit guarantees that no log data has been deleted or modified.
Log Data Aggregation: The Novell Audit Secure Logging Server allows you to collect log data from multiple BorderManager proxy servers into one data store. Reports can then be generated that reflect Web activity for an entire organization, not just one server.
Performance: Novell Audit is very fast and scalable. It allows you to do comprehensive logging with minimal impact on proxy performance.
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