How to leverage auditd & rsyslog to send select audit events to specific files or hosts

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Issue

  • How can we get selected audit events to show up in /var/log/messages or other log files?

  • Our system has many audit rules and the generated events all show up in /var/log/audit/audit.log, but we want certain select events to also be passed to rsyslog for further processing. How can we do this?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • rsyslog
  • auditd

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