CA Identity Manager Configuration Guide › Auditing › How to Configure and Generate Audit Data Report

How to Configure and Generate Audit Data Report

Audit data provides a historical record of operations that occur in an environment. When you configure and enable auditing, the system records information about the tasks in an auditing database. The audit information can be used to generate reports. Some examples of audit data include the following points:

• System activity for a specified period of a time.
• User login and logout events while accessing a particular environment.
• The tasks that a specific user performs
• A list of objects that were modified during a specific period of a time.
• The user assigned roles
• The operations which are performed for a particular user account.

Audit data is generated for CA Identity Manager events. An event is an operation that is generated by a CA Identity Manager task. For example, the Create User task may include an AssignAccessRoleEvent event.

The following diagram describes how a system administrator configures auditing and generates a report on audit data:

As an administrator, complete the following steps:

1. Verify Prerequisites
2. Modify Audit Settings File
3. Enable Auditing For A Task
4. Request a Report
5. View the Report