WAS v8.5 > WebSphere applications > Service integration > Service integration securitySecurity event logging
Security events on a service integration bus are logged as audit or error records in the SystemOut.log file for the bus.
IBM recommends using the HPEL log and trace infrastructure. With HPEL, one views logs using the LogViewer command-line tool in PROFILE/bin.
A security event is the outcome of an attempt by a connecting client application to authenticate to a bus. There are two possible outcomes: authentication success, and authentication failure. Success is logged as an audit record, and failure as an error record. We can control the type and number of audit and error records logged for a bus by configuring a custom property for the bus, in the dmgr console. The property is a name-value pair called audit.bus.authentication that can have one of the following three string values:
- all
- Audit every attempt to authenticate to the bus.
- failure
- Audit only failure to authenticate to the bus.
- none
- Do not audit any attempt to authenticate to the bus.
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