Chapter 2. Deploying Session Recording on RHEL web console This section describes how to deploy the Session Recording solution on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux web console. To be able to deploy the Session Recording solution you need to have the following packages installed: tlog SSSD cockpit-session-recording 2.1. Installing tlog Install the tlog packages. Procedure Use the following command: 2.2. Installing cockpit-session-recording The basic web console packages are a part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 by default. To be able to use the Session Recording solution, you have to install the cockpit-session-recording packages and start or enable the web console on your system: Procedure Install cockpit-session-recording . Start or enable the web console on your system: or 2.3. Enabling session recording for users and groups with SSSD from the CLI If you use SSSD for authentication, you can configure session recording for users and groups from the command line. Procedure Open the sssd-session-recording.conf configuration file: Note The sssd-session-recording.conf file is created automatically once you have opened the configuration page in the web console interface. To specify the scope of session recording, enter one of the following values for the scope option: none to record no sessions. some to record only specified sessions. all to record all sessions. Optional: If you set the scope as some add the names of users and groups in comma-separated lists. To enable the SSSD profile, run the following command: Example 2.1. SSSD configuration In the following example users example1 and example2 , and group examples have session recording enabled. 2.4. Enabling session recording for users and groups with SSSD from the web UI If you use SSSD for authentication, you can configure session recording for users and groups in the RHEL 8 web console. Procedure Connect to the RHEL 8 web console locally by entering localhost:9090 or by entering your IP address <IP_ADDRESS>:9090 into your browser. Log in to the RHEL 8 web console. Important Your user has to have administrator privileges to be able to view recorded sessions. Go to the Session Recording page in the menu on the left. Click on the gear button in the right top corner. Set your parameters in the SSSD Configuration table. Separate the lists of users and groups with commas. Example 2.2. Configuration of recorded users with SSSD 2.5. Enabling session recording for users without SSSD Important Red Hat recommends configuring your recorded users using SSSD, either from the command-line interface or directly from the RHEL 8 web console. Without SSSD, there is no centralized management for policies. Administrators must set the shell for each user on every system individually, which makes it difficult to scale across multiple systems. Group-based configurations or exclusions such as exclude_users and exclude_groups are also not available. Additionally, tools like Cockpit Session Recording are designed to work with SSSD and might not function as expected without it. To enable session recording without SSSD, change the shell of the user you want to record to /usr/bin/tlog-rec-session . The system uses the configuration in the tlog-rec-session.conf file to determine the user's working shell. 2.6. Exporting recorded sessions to a file You can export your recorded sessions and their logs and copy them. The following procedure shows how to export recorded sessions on a local system. Prerequisites Install the systemd-journal-remote package. Procedure Create a directory to store exported recording sessions, such as `/tmp/dir: Run the journalctl -o export command to export system journal entries related to tlog recordings: Note The COMM=tlog-rec-sessio COMM name is shortened due to a 15 character limit.

Commands:
yum install tlog
yum install cockpit-session-recording
systemctl start cockpit.socket systemctl enable cockpit.socket
systemctl enable cockpit.socket --now
vi /etc/sssd/conf.d/sssd-session-recording.conf
authselect select sssd with-files-domain
[session_recording] scope = some users = example1, example2 groups = examples
sudo usermod -s /usr/bin/tlog-rec-session <user_name>
yum install systemd-journal-remote
mkdir /tmp/dir
journalctl _COMM=tlog-rec _COMM=tlog-rec-sessio -o export | /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journal-remote -o /tmp/dir/example.journal -