Thanks Larry for the quick response. I'll have to go back and double check
if the access and uri are in there. If so I must have missed it the first
time through. Correlating across the GUID should work for our quick
debugging.

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:23 AM, larry mccay <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Kevin -
>
> I would think that you can use the correlation id (GUID) to find the url
> used to access the failed authentication.
> For instance, consider the following:
>
> *17/10/10 10:19:20
> ||a7bae089-e52d-403e-a623-fddde5c15c67|audit|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|AMBARI||||access|uri|/gateway/mgt/ambari/api/v1/clusters/ljm/requests?to=end&page_size=10&fields=Requests&_=1507645160383|unavailable|Request
> method: GET*
> *17/10/10 10:19:20
> ||a7bae089-e52d-403e-a623-fddde5c15c67|audit|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|AMBARI|anonymous|||authentication|uri|/gateway/mgt/ambari/api/v1/clusters/ljm/requests?to=end&page_size=10&fields=Requests&_=1507645160383|success|*
> *17/10/10 10:19:20 ||a7bae089-e52d-403e-a623-*fddd
> e5c15c67|audit|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|AMBARI|anonymous|||dispatch|uri|
> http://c6401.ambari.apache.org:8080/api/v1/clusters/ljm/
> requests?to=end&fields=Requests&page_size=10&_=
> 1507645160383|unavailable|Request method: GET
> 17/10/10 10:19:20 ||a7bae089-e52d-403e-a623-fddd
> e5c15c67|audit|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|AMBARI|anonymous|||dispatch|uri|
> http://c6401.ambari.apache.org:8080/api/v1/cluster
> s/ljm/requests?to=end&fields=Requests&page_size=10&_=
> 1507645160383|success|Response status: 200
> 17/10/10 10:19:20 ||a7bae089-e52d-403e-a623-fddd
> e5c15c67|audit|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|AMBARI|anonymous|||access|
> uri|/gateway/mgt/ambari/api/v1/clusters/ljm/requests?to=
> end&page_size=10&fields=Requests&_=1507645160383|success|Response status:
> 200
>
> All of the above are related to the same request.
> The "access" entry prior to the "authentication" entry contains the URI
> being request with the topology in it.
>
> Does this not meet the needs?
>
> thanks,
>
> --larry
>
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Kevin Risden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Background
>> ----------------
>> Currently we have multiple topologies in a single Knox server. Each
>> topology points to a different Hadoop environment. For this example, assume
>> the topologies are named DEV, TEST, and PROD.
>>
>> We had a group who hits Knox forget to change their LDAP password so
>> there were a bunch of messages like this in the audit logs:
>>
>> 17/09/12 15:05:08 ||GUID|audit|WEBHBASE||||authe
>>> ntication|principal|USERNAME|failure|LDAP authentication failed.
>>
>>
>> We contacted the group and they wanted to know which topology the
>> requests were hitting so they could fix their password. Regardless of if
>> they should have different users per environment or not, we had no way to
>> easily tell the group which topology they were hitting. The LDAP
>> authentication failure log didn't say which topology it was hitting.
>>
>> It would be great if the audit log message was something like this:
>>
>>
>>> 17/09/12 15:05:08 ||GUID|audit|DEV|WEBHBASE||||a
>>> uthentication|principal|USERNAME|failure|LDAP authentication failed.
>>>
>>
>> In this case, the topology was added in the audit line maybe near the
>> service name. We think having the topology name on the line somewhere would
>> be useful for debugging purposes.
>>
>> Question
>> ------------
>> Is it possible to configure Knox to log which topology each line in the
>> audit log came from?
>>
>> I was looking at https://github.com/apache/k
>> nox/blob/master/gateway-util-common/src/main/java/org/apache
>> /hadoop/gateway/audit/log4j/layout/AuditLayout.java and I'm not sure if
>> its possible to easily add the topology there or if it is even the right
>> place?
>>
>>
>>
>

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