Problem Statement : Console access ...access to admin-account remote-management-scope(various kinds of interfaces)

                    Understanding accessing various threats ... scope of audit trail ...audit log 
                    ...various kind's  of hosts ...servers...appliances ...firewalls ...product-packaging

                    potentialy utilized and falls within the scope of performance-tuning,performance-engineering.                  

                    ranging from insider-threat(will full compromise , data manipulation by a operator), 
                    implicit ...error prone to what may be termed human error.

                    ranging from the ability to atomicity of accountability , ability to restore the
                    system to normal.

                    read through the document  opportunity_syslog_enhancement.txt, 
                                               process_priority_thread_priority_OS_management_programming.txt


Opportunity A: understanding from deriving from the above.


 ....deriving from on the line of ....say analyze the output of the script command ...i.e. in effect a process-pipe ...capturing the activity.

 ....i.e. in-effect capture the stdin,stdout, stderr ...the interaction with the shell the sequential order.

 ....given the context writing the captured log to a disk,tape or other device capable of holding the quantum of information.


automated log and event parsing and analyzer  ...to be analyzed on the lines of centralized  ...syslog ,
[...either integrate with the syslog's alerting mechanism ]


or a seperate daemon that can be used based on pattern analysis of the log's ...ability to automatically alert a
system admin or the operator of  'the event' (example success-full completion of a scheduled backup).


[ given that most operating systems bundle audit-trail as a feature ...ability to expose api such that application software
  can ...plug-in or rather ideally ...given that all application software is running the context of the OS(host environment)
  ...criteria
  for application software being made mandatory to make it transperent or apparent ...thus giving the ability to have a
  centralized audit trail for the host or system ...ability to perform a chronological audit of the system.
]
  



Also given the fact ...these logs can be analysed offile using any text analyser ...vim , grep ...kind of utilities.


Opportunity B: further to above with the availablity to high-speed tape-drive's with gigs of storage space's on 
               tape mediums or archival

               by shipping custom ...driver for the tape-drive ...with forward only of the tape or custom-motor that
               is or can be spun only in one direction forward only.

               custom ...device-driver(disk) for the host such that ...all modifications to the system state is 
               auto synchronized to the tape-medium.

               ...custom bundlable solution ...packagable with custom software or products like database,dss,groupware solutions
                  handling ...information or data of importance.


            

Note: The above problem statement having been encountered in various scenarios
      and detailed in various 'Proof of concepts' as mentioned in 
      
       http://uk.geocities.com/ravivenkatus/projects.pdf
       http://ravishankarkv.tripod.com/projects.pdf
        ....apply appropriate
      'use-case' modeling, rationalize and arrive at a workable and feasible 
       solution both commercially and techinically viable.







