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UTimes and Denied Records in the Audit Log After Database Backup

Symptom:

When CA Access Control is running and I back up the CA Access Control database with my OS backup tools, CA Access Control sends an entry to the audit log similar to the following message:

03 Mar 2008 15:58:01 D FILE             UTimes     69 10
/opt/CA/AccessControl/seosdb/seos_pvf.fre /usr/sbin/fbackup

Note: The example above is written using UNIX pathnames, but the solution is also valid for Windows computers.

Solution:

The audit message means that CA Access Control prevented the backup operation from updating the UTimes file date stamp. CA Access Control did not prevent the backup itself.

To prevent this message from appearing in the audit log, do the following:

• If the backup program is executed by a non superuser, verify that the user has the OPERATOR attribute.
• If the backup program is executed by a superuser, verify that the backup program has a SPECIALPGM record that has the pgmtype(backup) property.

To help ensure that the database is correctly backed up, use the dbmgr utility to perform the back up.

More information:

OPERATOR Attribute