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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
Categories HMC/Support Element (SE)
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 3, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

HMC userid with access to all Web Services API logs

As a development shop we have a number of users testing Web Services APIs on the HMC. Some of these APIs are known to cause lockouts of the SE (such as those in Perform Model Conversion) - both changes and queries.

We need a central place to audit who is doing what and when. The HMC provides "Manage Web Services API Logs" but that is limited to the Web Services user who issued the API call. This becomes a problem with multiple userids and passwords. We want ACSADMIN or some other userid to have access to all API logs.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 6, 2020

    z14 and later SEs and z15 and later HMCs have the ability to forward a variety of log data to any centralized log server that supports the syslog protocol (RFC 5424), such as QRadar, Splunk, etc. One type of data that can be forwarded is the web service API log data. When this is done all web service log data is forwarded to the log server where it can be analyzed and viewed for all systems in the enterprise rather than just a single system. With this support in place we do not see a need to provide a way to view the same type of data scoped to a single HMC or SE. Other types of logs can also be forwarded to a central server, so that a more complete picture of what was happening where can be seen, which can help provide insight into what things might be interacting (favorable or unfavorably) with each other.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 18, 2017

    Thank you for your input.

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