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community.windows.win_audit_policy_system – Used to make changes to the system wide Audit Policy

Note

This plugin is part of the community.windows collection (version 1.7.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.windows.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.windows.win_audit_policy_system.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
See Also
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis

Used to make changes to the system wide Audit Policy.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
audit_type list / elements=string / required	Choices: failure none success	The type of event you would like to audit for. Accepts a list. See examples.
category string		Single string value for the category you would like to adjust the policy on. Cannot be used with subcategory. You must define one or the other. Changing this setting causes all subcategories to be adjusted to the defined audit_type.
subcategory string		Single string value for the subcategory you would like to adjust the policy on. Cannot be used with category. You must define one or the other.

Notes

Note

It is recommended to take a backup of the policies before adjusting them for the first time.
See this page for in depth information https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766468.aspx.

Examples

- name: Enable failure auditing for the subcategory "File System"
  community.windows.win_audit_policy_system:
    subcategory: File System
    audit_type: failure

- name: Enable all auditing types for the category "Account logon events"
  community.windows.win_audit_policy_system:
    category: Account logon events
    audit_type: success, failure

- name: Disable auditing for the subcategory "File System"
  community.windows.win_audit_policy_system:
    subcategory: File System
    audit_type: none

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
current_audit_policy dictionary	always	details on the policy being targetted Sample: { "File Share":"failure" }

Authors

Noah Sparks (@nwsparks)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/windows/win_audit_policy_system_module.html