Monitoring Users (Trace or security-Audit-Log)

Hi,
we have 2 extrernal Users in our system and want to know, what they are "doing" in
our Sytem (Tcode, Reports etc.).
Is the best way to use security-Audit-Log (SM19/SM20) or to us etraces (ST01/ST05/ST11).
Thanks for Help.
regards, Dieter

Hi Thomas,
thanks for your answer. I try as you has mentioned.
Regards, Dieter

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CCMS and Security Audit log

I have seen a huge number of companies who do not use SM19/SM20 or RZ20. It is not configured. example I worked for 3 clients(user base 14000, 16000,1000) and none of them have this configuration.
Do you know why is it so if it is not configured at your place.
Thanks
Edited by: Pankaj Jain on Sep 26, 2009 7:02 PM

Performance impact is dependent on the Hardware sizing and the daily monitoring activities together with the back up schedule by the BASIS team.
My experience is: I have seen maximum of clients using this for logging activities of ALL users in the system. In other few cases, it is restricted to Super and Special users.
Please go through the document: [Security Audit Log|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/2088d9d4-e011-2a10-bba9-90548dbc2d6a&overridelayout=true] (it's a bit Old)
Try searching Community with SM20 / SM19 / Security Audit Log search strings.
Regards,
Dipanjan

Regd. Security Audit log

Hi,
We have a requirement from business to activate Security audit log for all Business users. We have around 160 Business users but in SM19 I am able to set filters for only 10 users maximum.
Also I tried creating 16 profiles and maintained 10 users each but still I was able to activate only one profile at a time.
If I put * in the user tab then system starts logging for all users including our ESS users. But we don't want to log for ESS users as there are 1000+ ESS users which will affect the growth of the security log as well the performance.
Please suggest is there any way to enable security log only for around 160 users using SM19.
Regards,
Nalla.

> Thanks for the update. But rsau/user_selection will not help us because our user ids are similar to our employee ids and we cant use wild card option like RFC* or ESS*.
I thought it worth mentioning, to consider for next time...
> Also in detailed selection option in SM19, i tried removing the RFC related options but still when our ESS users login, it is getting logged.
Possibly it is logging the RFC call and not the RFC authentication. Try the other way around and filter out the successfull logins in SM20N.
> Is there any way we can restrict using user group or licensing type?
No, not to my knowledge.
> Will it be a minor development if I ask our ABAPER to create a Z Tcode similar to SU19 by including user group or is there any user exit which can help us to put restriciton on user group wise.
You can make the screen program glow in the dark in a Z-tcode, but the location where the log is written is not accessible to you and that is where the music is.
The best option is to set a carefully chosen and tested filter in SM19 which covers your requirement without stopping the log, and then use SM20N to filter a subset of that.
You can also define the selection methods and reaction methods in transaction RZ21 and then activate them in a monitoring template in RZ20. This way you are faster and will only see what you want.
You can also do the same in Solution Manager for the managed systems and have a central monitoring and reaction from there. Then you are on the right track in my opinion.
Cheers,
Julius

Security Audit Log / Logging of downloads from query results?

Hi everybody,
our data protection team has raised the requirement to log all data downloads from our BW system. As far as I know, it is possible to log downloads in SAP GUI using Security Audit Log, but does this also cover "Export to Excel" functionality of query results executed in the portal? And what about execution of queries with BEx Analyzer? I doubt, if that tool would log this. Are there any other tools available to cover that requirement?
Any comment and idea is welcome. Thanks in advance!
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Carsten

If restricted to ALV I think it can be done, but even there... if the user executes it in background and mails or prints the spool request then the cat is out of the box...
Moral of the story: Do not grant access if the user should not be able to see the data (regardless where they log on from).
That you cannot monitor / log all (mass) download events is however a bit unfortunate, however once the data is outside of the system for those whom you do trust then you anyway need to train them not to park sensitive files on project or public file servers.
IMO the main problem here is front-end computing tools (like Excel, etc) which the users feel more confortable with to analyze data than the server side analytics tools (e.g. in the ALV task bars, or even the BOBJ Dashboards which are very "user-sentric").
In German it is known as "Bauern mentalität" (farmer mentality) which generally resides at the application surphase layer in the greater scheme of things:
-> You do not eat anything you have not slaughtered yourself...
Specifically regarding tokenization, you can consider not displaying the data in the portal. If the user wants to display these fields they have to navigate in their own context into the backend system to retrieve the token and then only display individual values.
--> A download of a list via the portal or BEX excludes these fields which the user can access, but not mass download.
I think this is possible, but it will be a challenge depending on whether the fields support tockenization. Credit Card numbers as mentioned my Martin is fairly vanilla and already used.
Custom fields&types, insufficiently critical elements and older programs will be a bigger challenge.
Please provide more details, as the generic answers are not well take care of IMO. If you cannot provide mre details, then SDN discussions speculating on answers is not efficient either...
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Julius

"logon time" between USR41 and security audit log

Dear colleagues,
I got a following question from customer for security audit reason.
> 'Logon date' and 'Logon time' values stored in table USR41 are exactly same as
> logon history of Security Audit Log(Tr-cd:SM20)?
Table:USR41 saves 'logon date' and 'logon time' when user logs on to SAP System from SAP GUI.
And the Security Audit Log(Tr-cd:SM20) can save user's logon history;
at the time when user logged on, the security audit log is recorded .
I tried to check SAP GUI logon program:SAPMSYST several ways, however,
I could not check it because the program is protected even for read access.
I want to know about specification of "logon time" between USR41 and security audit log,
or about how to look into the program:SAPMSYST and debug it.
Thank you.
Best Regards.

Hi,
If you configure Security Audit you can achieve your goals...
1-Audit the employees how access the screens, tables, data...etc
Answer : Option 1 & 3
2-Audit all changes by all users to the data
Answer : Option 1 & 3
3-Keep the data up to one month
Answer: No such settings, but you can define maximum log size.
4-Log retention period can be defined.
Answer: No !.. but you can define maximum log size.
SM19/SM20 Options:
1-Dialog logon
You can check how many users logged in and at what time
2-RFC login/call
Same as above you can check RFC logins
3-Transaction/report start
You can see which report or transaction are executed and at what time
(It will help you to analyise unauthorized data change. Transactions/report can give you an idea, what data has been changed. So you can see who changed the data)
4-User master change
(You can see user master changes log with this option)
5-System/Other events
(System error can be logged using this option)
Hope, it clear the things...
Regards.
Rajesh Narkhede

Security Audit Log SM19 and Log Management external tool

Hi all,
we are connecting a SAP ECC system with a third part product for log management.
Our SAP system is composed by many application servers.
We have connected the external tool with the SAP central system.
The external product gathers data from SAP Security Audit Log (SM19/SM20).
The problem is that we see, in the external tool, only the data available in the central system.
The mandatory parameters have been activated and the system has been restarted.
The strategy of SAP Security Audit Log is to create many audit log file for each application server. Probably, only when SM20 is started, all audit files from all application servers are read and collected.
In our scenario, we do not use SM20 since we want read the collected data in the external tool.
Is there a job to be scheduled (or something else) in order to have all Security Audit Log available (from all application servers) in the central instance ?
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Andrea Cavalleri

I am always amazed at these questions...
For one, SAP provides an example report ( RSAU_READ_AUDITLOG_EXTERNAL ) to use BAPIs for alerts from the audit log yet 3rd party solutions seem to be alergic to using APIs for some reason.
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Security Audit Log for XI IB

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on the ABAP Stack it is possible to activate the security audit log, to log activities on certain objects/functions. Is there also a possibilty to do this for the JAVA-Stack.
We have for legal reasons to log, want users are doing on the productive XI system. E.g. we wanna log if someone is changing the value mapping or configurating the adapter.
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Hi,
chk out these links
Audit Log
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_me21sp2/helpdata/en/23/c9833b3bb1780fe10000000a11402f/content.htm
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Security audit log for the last 30 days?

Hi,
My current settings for the security audit log is 20 MB (by default). I dont want to control it with file size limitation, but by the no. of days the audit is recorded (max 30 days).
What are the parameters that I would need to maintain?
Or any additinal config is required?
Thanks,
Abdul

Hi,
My current configuration is like this:
Name                Description                                           Current value                                            System default value
FN_AUDIT     Name of security audit file          audit_++++++++
DIR_AUDIT     Directory for security audit files     /usr/sap/GSP/DVEBMGS00/log     /usr/sap/GSP/D00/log
rsau/enable     Enable Security Audit          0
rsau/max_diskspace/local     Maximum space for security audit file     300M     20M
rsau/max_diskspace/per_day     Maximum size of all security audit files per day          0
rsau/max_diskspace/per_file     Maximum size of one single security audit file          0
rsau/selection_slots     Number of selection slots for security audit          2
rsau/user_selection     Defines the user selection method used inside kernel functions          0
I have just activated the audit, and in just 30 minutes, I can see that the file is about 45MB. If this is the growth rate, the 300MB allocated for audit will completely used in just a day.
My requirement is - I want to track users and their activities for the last 30 days (or 45 days). No log should be overwritten unless it is atleast 30 days old.
In SM20, when I give selection from 1.1.10 to 31.1.10, it should show me all the activities during this period, without any breaks.
Other doubts: Do I have to start auditing manually every day? Or will it keep writing logs until it reaches 300 MB which can spread upto multiple days.
Regards
Abdul
Edited by: Abdul Rahim Shaik on Feb 4, 2010 11:17 AM

Security Audit Log FULL. What happens??

Hi there,
Can anyone tell me what will happen when the Security audit Log file is full on OS-level. Will the system stop? Is the file overwritten?
Best regards,
Joris

Hello Joris ,
1 ) Is the file overwritten? -> No
2 ) Will the system stop? -> Yes , if there will no free space on drive / file system SAP system will stop.
How to delete :
1.      To access the Security Audit Log reorganization tool from the SAP standard menu, choose Administration à System Administration à Monitor à Security Audit Log à Reorganization.
The Security Audit: Delete Old Audit Logs screen appears.
       2.      Enter the Minimum age of files to delete (default = 30 days).
This value must be > 3.
       3.      Activate the To all active instances indicator to delete the audit files from all application servers. Leave the indicator blank if you only want to delete the files from the local application server.
       4.      Activate the Simulation only indicator if you do not actually want to delete the files. In this case, the action is only simulated.
       5.      Choose Audit Log à Continue
Regards ,
Santosh Karadkar

Need details of people logged on when the Security audit log was deactive

Respected Guru's,
Security audit log was deactivated, i have activated it recently in sm19.
Now, i should get the details of people logged on when the audit log was deactive.
What are the posibilities of Security audit being deactivated.
Regards,
Daya.

Dear Alex,
Please let me know how to check in ST03N.
Further, how to retrive user logon data which is not recorded in the audit files.
Edited by: Dayananadan Anandan on Nov 12, 2009 10:03 AM

Security Audit Log Reason Codes

Hello there,
We have an logon failed entry in our Security Audit Log and i am trying to find out what the reason code is. I think it is to do with a failed RFC connection of one of our users. Is there a list somewhere that shows all these failed logon reason codes?
Logon Failed (Reason = 53, Type = H)
Cheers!
Bernard.

That would be a failed logon of type HTTP(s) due to the user ID's password being locked from failed logon attempts (USR02-UFLAG = 128 in the ABAP world).
See SAP Note 320991.
Cheers,
Julius

How to schedule a batch job to generate security audit log (SM20)

May be this is a repeat question for this forum. Apologize, if it is. Is there a way to schedule a batch job to generate security audit log (SM20) automatically and possibly send a message to SAP Inbox or generate a spool request? Release is 4.6C.
Regards
Nirmal

> May be this is a repeat question for this forum. Apologize, if it is.
You don't need to apologize. You only need to do a very simple search...
> Total Questions: 18 (16 unresolved)
Perhaps 16 of those 18 questions you have not followed up on could have been spared as well?
Please do the needfull.
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Julius

Getting the name of the program or the FM called from security audit log

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Is there a way to get the name of the ABAP program called through transaction SE38, or the FM called through transaction SE37, from the security audit log ?
What is available is only : RSABAPPROGRAM for transaction SE38, and RSFUNCTIONBUILDER for transaction SE37
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Reda

I had always assumed this log to be in the SUBMIT statement, but never used it.
If I remember correctly this is recorded it the runtime submit, so it should be there.
Perhaps it is only in selected reports? I will check in my system.
Please compare with sm20n and run the report from sa38. The submits are different in sa38 etc compared to se38.
The FM will only be recorded it it has a destination extention in the source system which is mostly remote. Local fm calls are not recorded for sure.
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Julius
Edited by: Julius Bussche on Jul 26, 2011 11:32 PM

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Wed like to get Custom reports. The base of reports is Security Audit Log files. This is files for SM20.
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Hello Marina
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As I can see you have already opened a thread regarding this. Please don't duplicate the threads, as this only widespreads the information.
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Désiré

Performance issue of Security Audit log

Hello,
My client would like to activate the Security Audit log on his system. However he will like to know whether there could be any performance issue when activating it. Since I do not have any prior experience, can you please give me your general feedback on this subject. Have any of you experience performance issue when implementing security audit log and what can be done to minimize its effect?

Hai,
Activating Security Audit logs will not affect the performance of your SAP system. Since SAP Systems maintain their audit logs on a daily basis. The system does not delete or overwrite audit files from previous days; it keeps them until you manually delete them. Due to the amount of information that may accumulate, you should archive these files on a regular basis and delete the originals from the application server. This is the only thing you really need to take care since they might fill up the disk space if you dont archive or delete them on regular basis. Also since the data is very sensitive you should take extra care to protect the data.
Please follow the below links for more details.....
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/EN/95/d2a8e36d6611d1a5700000e835363f/frameset.htm
http://www.saptechies.com/faq-answers-to-questions-about-the-security-audit-log/
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