JdbcAuditEventHandler

An audit event handler that responds to events by logging messages to an appropriately configured relational database table.

Declare the configuration in an audit service, as described in AuditService.

To configure IG to use the database, add the database .jar file containing the Driver as follows:

For IG in standalone mode, create the directory $HOME/.openig/extra, where $HOME/.openig is the instance directory, and add .jar files to the directory.
For IG in web container mode, add .jar files to the web container classpath. For example, in Jetty use /path/to/jetty/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib.
For IG in standalone mode, the JDBC handler library is in the lib directory.
For IG in web container mode, the JDBC handler library is built into the IG .war file.

Unpack the library, then find the examples under the db/ folder.

Usage

{
  "class": "org.forgerock.audit.handlers.jdbc.JdbcAuditEventHandler",
  "config": {
    "name": configuration expression<string>,
    "topics": [ configuration expression<string>, ... ],
    "databaseType": configuration expression<string>,
    "enabled": configuration expression<boolean>,
    "buffering": {
      "enabled": configuration expression<boolean>,
      "writeInterval": configuration expression<duration>,
      "autoFlush": configuration expression<boolean>,
      "maxBatchedEvents": configuration expression<number>,
      "maxSize": configuration expression<number>,
      "writerThreads": configuration expression<number>
    },
    "connectionPool": {
      "driverClassName": configuration expression<string>,
      "dataSourceClassName": configuration expression<string>,
      "jdbcUrl": configuration expression<string>,
      "username": configuration expression<string>,
      "password": configuration expression<string>,
      "autoCommit": configuration expression<boolean>,
      "connectionTimeout": configuration expression<number>,
      "idleTimeout": configuration expression<number>,
      "maxLifetime": configuration expression<number>,
      "minIdle": configuration expression<number>,
      "maxPoolSize": configuration expression<number>,
      "poolName": configuration expression<string>
    },
    "tableMappings": [
      {
        "event": configuration expression<string>,
        "table": configuration expression<string>,
        "fieldToColumn": configuration expression<map>
      }
    ]
  }
}

Configuration

"name": configuration expression<string>, required: The name of the event handler.

"topics": array of configuration expression<strings>, required

One or more topics that this event handler intercepts. IG can record the following audit event topics:

access: Log access audit events. Access audit events occur at the system boundary, and include the arrival of the initial request and departure of the final response.

To record access audit events, configure AuditService inline in a route, or in the heap.
customTopic: Log custom audit events. To create a topic for a custom audit event, include a JSON schema for the topic in your IG configuration.

To record custom audit events, configure AuditService in the heap, and refer to it from the route or subroutes. For an example of how to set up custom audit events, see Record custom audit events.

"databaseType": configuration expression<string>, required

The database type name.

Built-in support is provided for oracle, mysql, and h2.

"enabled": configuration expression<boolean>, optional

Whether this event handler is active.

Default: true.

"buffering": object, optional

Buffering settings for sending messages to the database. The default is for messages to be written to the log file for each event.

The buffering object has the following fields:

"enabled": configuration expression<boolean>, optional: Whether log buffering is enabled.

Default: false.
"writeInterval": configuration expression<duration>, required: The interval at which to send buffered event messages to the database.

This interval must be greater than 0 if buffering is enabled.
"autoFlush": configuration expression<boolean>, optional: Whether the events are automatically flushed after being written.

Default: true.
"maxBatchedEvents": configuration expression<number>, optional: The maximum number of event messages batched into a PreparedStatement.

Default: 100.
"maxSize": : configuration expression<number>, optional: The maximum size of the queue of buffered event messages.

Default: 5000.
"writerThreads": configuration expression<number>, optional: The number of threads to write buffered event messages to the database.

Default: 1.

"connectionPool": object, required

When a JdbcDataSource object named AuditService is defined in the route heap. This configuration is not required.

Connection pool settings for sending messages to the database.

"driverClassName": configuration expression<string>, optional: The class name of the driver to use for the JDBC connection. For example, with MySQL Connector/J, the class name is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver.
"dataSourceClassName": configuration expression<string>, optional: The class name of the data source for the database.
"jdbcUrl": configuration expression<string>, required: The JDBC URL to connect to the database.
"username": configuration expression<string>, required: The username identifier for the database user with access to write the messages.
"password": configuration expression<number>, optional: The password for the database user with access to write the messages.
"autoCommit": configuration expression<boolean>, optional: Whether to commit transactions automatically when writing messages.

Default: true.
"connectionTimeout": configuration expression<number>, optional: The number of milliseconds to wait for a connection from the pool before timing out.

Default: 30000.
"idleTimeout": configuration expression<number>, optional: The number of milliseconds to allow a database connection to remain idle before timing out.

Default: 600000.
"maxLifetime": configuration expression<number>, optional: The number of milliseconds to allow a database connection to remain in the pool.

Default: 1800000.
"minIdle": configuration expression<number>, optional: The minimum number of idle connections in the pool.

Default: 10.
"maxPoolSize": configuration expression<number>, optional: The maximum number of connections in the pool.

Default: 10.
"poolName": configuration expression<string>, optional: The name of the connection pool.

"tableMappings": array of objects, required

Table mappings for directing event content to database table columns.

A table mappings object has the following fields:

"event": configuration expression<string>, required: The audit event that the table mapping is for.

Set this to access.
"table": configuration expression<string>, required: The name of the database table that corresponds to the mapping.
"fieldToColumn":_<map>, required_: Maps of names of audit event fields to database columns, where the keys and values are both strings.

Audit event fields use JSON pointer notation, and are taken from the JSON schema for the audit event content.

Example

Examples including statements to create tables are provided in the JDBC handler library, forgerock-audit-handler-jdbc-version.jar.

For an example of using JdbcAuditEventHandler, see Recording Access Audit Events in a Database.

In the following example, IG events are logged to an h2 database:

{
  "name": "audit-jdbc",
  "baseURI": "http://app.example.com:8081",
  "condition": "${find(request.uri.path, '^/home/audit-jdbc')}",
  "heap": [
    {
      "name": "SystemAndEnvSecretStore-1",
      "type": "SystemAndEnvSecretStore"
    },
    {
      "name": "AuditDataSource",
      "type": "JdbcDataSource",
      "config": {
        "dataSourceClassName" : "org.h2.jdbcx.JdbcDataSource",
        "username"            : "sa",
        "passwordSecretId"    : "database.password",
        "secretsProvider"     : "SystemAndEnvSecretStore-1",
        "properties" : {
          "url"               : "jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost/~/test"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "AuditService",
      "type": "AuditService",
      "config": {
        "eventHandlers": [
          {
            "class": "org.forgerock.audit.handlers.jdbc.JdbcAuditEventHandler",
            "config": {
              "databaseType": "h2",
              "name": "jdbc",
              "topics": [
                "access"
              ],
              "tableMappings": [
                {
                  "event": "access",
                  "table": "audit.auditaccess",
                  "fieldToColumn": {
                    "_id": "id",
                    "timestamp": "timestamp_",
                    "eventName": "eventname",
                    "transactionId": "transactionid",
                    "userId": "userid",
                    "trackingIds": "trackingids",
                    "server/ip": "server_ip",
                    "server/port": "server_port",
                    "client/ip": "client_ip",
                    "client/port": "client_port",
                    "request/protocol": "request_protocol",
                    "request/operation": "request_operation",
                    "request/detail": "request_detail",
                    "http/request/secure": "http_request_secure",
                    "http/request/method": "http_request_method",
                    "http/request/path": "http_request_path",
                    "http/request/queryParameters": "http_request_queryparameters",
                    "http/request/headers": "http_request_headers",
                    "http/request/cookies": "http_request_cookies",
                    "http/response/headers": "http_response_headers",
                    "response/status": "response_status",
                    "response/statusCode": "response_statuscode",
                    "response/elapsedTime": "response_elapsedtime",
                    "response/elapsedTimeUnits": "response_elapsedtimeunits"
                  }
                }
              ]
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "auditService": "AuditService",
  "handler": "ReverseProxyHandler"
}

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