EMC Isilon Viewing Audit Logs

To view audit logs on an EMC Isilon storage cluster, you can use the following command.

isi_audit_viewer -h

e.g:

isi_audit_viewer -s '2018-01-01 00:00:00' -e '2018-01-31 00:00:00' -t protocol | grep '\\\\ifs\\\\ZoneName\\\\path\\\\to\\\\folder'

Note that we need to escape backslashes when calling grep, so \\ will become \\\\.

To make things more efficient for when re-reviewing the same audit log data, or when building your search expression for grep, you can simply pipe the output from isi_audit_viewer to a file, and then process that file. e.g:

isi_audit_viewer -s '2018-01-01 00:00:00' -e '2018-01-31 00:00:00' -t protocol > /tmp/audit_log.txt

# and then
cat /tmp/audit_log.txt | grep '\\\\ifs\\\\ZoneName\\\\path\\\\to\\\\folder'
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