Audit Tools

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Introduction

SME Server comes with a set of audit tools. These tools can assist you in getting information about your system, to help you troubleshoot or to provide valuable data to be attached to bug reports. The tools are located in the /sbin/e-smith/audittools/ folder of your server.

Available audit tools

Below is a list of available audittools, with their function.

# ls /sbin/e-smith/audittools/
aliases 
events 
groups-users
newrpms 
pseudonyms 
repositories 
templates 
templates2expand 
users2domains 
virtualdomains2pseudonyms

aliases

[Need description]

events

This tool will generate a list of events that are not part of the basic SME Server installation, it will also tell you if the events overrides a default template or if it is an addition.

groups-users

The purpose of this tool is to verify correct GID and UID of essential groups and users of SME and to display all users, groups, ibays set in the collaboration panel of server-manager.

newrpms

This script provides you with a list of RPMs that are installed outside the default repositories. This can be used to determine what RPM packages you have installed additionally.

pseudonyms

[Need description - command tested on a server with many pseudonyms for various users, no output]

repositories

This tool generates a list of repositories setup on the server under test, and their status (i.e. enabled or disabled).

templates

This tool will generate a list of template fragments that are not part of the basic SME Server installation, it will also tell you if the template fragments overrides a default template or if it is an addition.

templates2expand

This tools will list all template generated config files, ordered per event.

users2domains

[Need description]

virtualdomains2pseudonyms

[Need description]

Usage

To run a report issue the command in this style

/sbin/e-smith/audittools/audittoolname

eg

/sbin/e-smith/audittools/newrpms
/sbin/e-smith/audittools/groups-users

and so on...

If you are using Putty, you can copy the contents of the screen into the clipboard.

Alternatively issue the command like this

/sbin/e-smith/audittools/newrpms > /path/filename

where /path/filename is the path & filename (on your sme server) of where you want to save the report