Auditing and Device Management

Auditing is a fundamental concept of system security and maintainability. Auditing is the process of examining the history of actions and events on a system to find out what happened. Auditing entails keeping a log of what was done, by whom, when the action was done, and what was affected. Device management controls the allocation of peripheral devices, such as diskettes and CD-ROMs. For more information on Solaris auditing and device management, see Chapter 20, BSM (Overview).