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Custom Audit Event Implementation

Audit data provides a historical record of operations that occur in a CA IdentityMinder environment. You can enable auditing for some or all the CA IdentityMinder events generated by admin tasks.

Note: For information about configuring auditing in your environment, see the Configuration Guide.

You can implement application-specific auditing in cases where you have custom code that performs a non-standard operation, for example, an object that updates a user directory directly, rather than through CA IdentityMinder. You could create a custom audit event to report unexpected results back to CA IdentityMinder.

To create an audit event to support your custom application, write a class that implements AuditEvent and that extends GenericAuditEvent. Typically, an extension of this class updates the description associated with the custom event, which is passed to CA IdentityMinder when the event occurs. You can override that class’s extractAuditData() method to process the audit data passed in to it (an EnhancedAuditData object) as appropriate for the situation.

The auditable attributes of an event are contained in EventProfile. This class also lets you set and retrieve the stage of an event cycle in which event attributes are recorded for auditing.

You can find a sample BLTH application with an associated audit event in the following directory:

admin_tools\samples\BLTH\Group