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Shutdown Event

CA ControlMinder shutdown events describe shutdown processes performed by an administrator or sub-administrator user with privileges to shutdown the system.

Audit records in this event have the following format:

Date Time M Event UserName SessionID Details Service AuditFlags
Date

Identifies the date the event occurred.

Format: DD MMM YYYY

Note: CA ControlMinder Endpoint Management formats the date display according to your computer's settings.

Time

Identifies the time the event occurred.

Format: HH:MM:SS

Note: CA ControlMinder Endpoint Management formats the time display according to your computer's settings.

Event Type

Identifies the type of event this record belongs to.

Note: CA ControlMinder Endpoint Management refers to this field simply as Event.

User Name

Identifies the name of the accessor that performed the action that triggered this event.

User Logon Session ID

Identifies the accessor's session ID.

Note: By default this field does not appear in a non-detailed seaudit output. To display this field in a non-detailed seaudit output, specify the -sessionid option in the seaudit command.

Details

Indicates at which stage CA ControlMinder decided what action to take for this event.

Note: The audit record you see in a non-detailed seaudit output displays a number in this field. This number is known as the authorization stage code. In a detailed output or in CA ControlMinder Endpoint Management, the audit record displays the message associated with the authorization stage code. For a complete list of stage codes, run seaudit -t.

Daemon (UNIX) / Engine service (Windows)

Identifies the name of the CA ControlMinder daemon (UNIX) or service (Windows) that was shut down.

Value: seosd (the CA ControlMinder Engine).

Audit Flags

Indicates whether the accessor is internal (CA ControlMinder database user) or an enterprise user.

Note: If the accessor is an enterprise user, the audit record you see in a non-detailed seaudit output displays the string "(OS user)" in this field. Otherwise, this field remains empty.

Example: Shutdown Event Message on UNIX

The following audit record was taken from a detailed seaudit output.

24 Sep 2008 15:40:46 M SHUTDOWN     root    452 seosd
Event type: Daemon shutdown
User name: root
Daemon: seosd
Date: 24 Sep 2008
Time: 15:40:46
Details: User is ADMIN or SPECIAL
User Logon Session ID: 48da26ce:00000142
Audit flags: CA ControlMinder database user

This audit record indicates that on September 24rd 2008, the user root who was attempting to shutdown CA ControlMinder was permitted to do so because the user has the ADMIN attribute (authorization stage code 452—User is ADMIN or SPECIAL).

Example: Shutdown Event Message on Windows

The following audit record was taken from a detailed seaudit output.

23 Dec 2008 12:56:20 D SHUTDOWN     tst002                   460 seosd
Event type: Engine service shutdown
User name: tst002
Engine service: seosd
Date: 10 Feb 2009
Time: 12:56
Details: User is not allowed to shutdown CA ControlMinder
User Logon Session ID: 00000000:04c240d5
Audit flags: AC database user

This audit record indicates that on December 23rd 2008, the CA ControlMinder shut down was denied because the user tst002 is not allowed to shutdown CA ControlMinder (authorization stage code 460—User is not allowed to shutdown CA ControlMinder).

More information:

Authorization Stage Codes for Shutdown Events