Basic Audit Reporting Tool

 Basic Audit Reporting Tool (BART)

A propose auditing. There is a small but cool tool in Solaris. It solves the problem of "No,i haven't changed anything on the system". It's called BART, the Basic Audit Reporting Tool. It a really simple tool and it's really easy to use.

Usage

Okay, let's assume after some days of work you _nally con_gured all components of your

new system. Okay, create a nice place to store the output of the bart tool. After this

you start bart for the _rst time to create the _rst manifest of your system.

# mkdir /bart – files

# bart create -R /etc > /bart - files /etc. control . manifest

The manifest stores all informations about the _les. This is the example for the

<code>/etc/nsswitch.nisplus</code>:

# cat etc. control . manifest | grep "/ nsswitch . nisplus "

/ nsswitch . nisplus F 2525 100644 user ::rw -, group ::r--, mask :r--,

other :r-- 473976 b5 0 3 79 e8fd689a5221d1cd059e5077da71b8

Now lets change some files:

# touch /etc/ thisisjustatest

# chmod 777 /etc/ nsswitch . files

# echo "# just a test " >> /etc/ nsswitch . nisplus

Okay, enough changes. Let's create a new manifest of the changed /etc. Pipe it to a

di_erent _le.

# bart create -R /etc > /bart - files /etc. check20080202 . manifest

Now we can compare the baseline manifest with the actual manifest.

# cd /bart - files

# bart compare etc. control . manifest etc. check20080202 . manifest

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This command prints all di_erences between the two manifests and thus the di_erence

between the tow states of the system

/ nsswitch . files :

mode control :100644 test :100777

acl control : user ::rw -, group ::r--, mask :r--, other :r-- test :

user :: rwx , group :: rwx , mask :rwx , other :rwx

/ nsswitch . nisplus :

size control :2525 test :2538

mtime control :473976 b5 test :47 a44862

contents control :79 e8fd689a5221d1cd059e5077da71b8 test :3

f79176ec352441db11ec8a3d02ef67c

/ thisisjustatest :

Add

 A really nice tool.
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How to Find and Download Solaris Patchsets and Bundles in MOS

How to Find and Download Solaris Patchsets and Bundles in MOS

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1.Go to My Oracle Support Portal

2.Select the 'Patches & Updates' tab

3.In the 'Patch Search' frame, click on 'Recommended Patch Advisor'

4.In 'Product' drop down list, enter 'Solaris' to see the option for 'Oracle Solaris'

5. In the next line, 'Release', click on the down arrow right and check the Release(s) you need.

6a. In the next line, click the down arrow right of the button which by default shows 'Platform' and select 'Type'.

The Customized Way to Find and Save Each Patchset Type

1.Go to My Oracle Support Portal

2.Select the 'Patches & Updates' Tab

3.On the left, under 'Oracle Servers and Tools', Select 'Latest Patchsets'
(Open Patching Quick Links if necessary)

4.Select 'Advanced Search'

5.In front of 'Product Family', Click the Flashlight and enter "Solaris op"

6.Check 'Solaris Operating System (Solaris)', go down and hit 'Select' button.

7.In front of 'Release', Click the Flashlight and select the Release you want , go down and hit 'Select' button.

8.In front of 'Platform or Language', Select your platform

9.In front of 'Patch Type', Select 'Patchset/Minipack'

10.Hit 'Go' and go down to see the results.