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<ul> <li>Free and open-source software portal</li></ul> <p>OpenBSM is an open source implementation of <a href="/facts/Sun_Microsystems/VJ9EzEFd">Sun</a>'s Basic Security Module (BSM) Audit <a href="/facts/Application_programming_interface/GMlN4vUr">API</a> and file format. BSM, which is a system used for auditing, describes a set of system call and library interfaces for managing audit records as well as a token stream file format that permits extensible and generalized <a href="/facts/Audit_trail/s3nQzrF4">audit trail</a> processing. </p><p>OpenBSM includes system include files appropriate for inclusion in an <a href="/facts/Operating_system/8XTuvMh2">operating system</a> implementation of Audit, libbsm, an implementation of the BSM library interfaces for generating, parsing, and managing audit records, auditreduce and praudit, audit reduction and printing tools, API documentation, and sample /etc configuration files. Works in progress include extensions to the libbsm API to support easier audit trail analysis, including a pattern matching library. </p><p>OpenBSM is derived from the BSM audit implementation found in <a href="/facts/Apple_Computer/oTJYta3k">Apple</a>'s open source <a href="/facts/Darwin_(operating_system)/DogI3ptd">Darwin</a> operating system, which upon request, Apple <a href="/facts/Software_relicensing/XfFlRdVw">relicensed</a> under a <a href="/facts/BSD_licence/XLtmLp5x">BSD licence</a> to allow for integration into <a href="/facts/FreeBSD/RKsFTm7F">FreeBSD</a> and other systems. The Darwin BSM implementation was created by <a href="/facts/McAfee/yIytBc4w">McAfee Research</a> under contract to Apple, and has since been extensively extended by the volunteer <a href="/facts/FreeBSD/RKsFTm7F">TrustedBSD</a> team. OpenBSM is included in FreeBSD as of version 6.2 and later, and has been announced as a Mac OS X Snow Leopard feature. </p>