Administering CA Output Management Web Viewer › Preferences › Setting Auditing Preferences

Setting Auditing Preferences

Auditing provides a record of which users performed which action on the CA OM Web Viewer systems. This auditing lets the Systems Administrator control which actions are tracked in the Audit record.

For example, some sites might want to keep a record of when a user exported reports, and others might want to know when users logged in.

Considerations for setting Auditing User Actions:

• The System administrator would normally setup the auditing options before the users start to log into the system.
• Auditing of the targeted action for currently logged in users will not begin until the user logs out and then logs back into the system.
• All users newly logging on to the system will have the action audited immediately.

Which User Actions to Audit

There are a number of different actions that can be audited. Each item represents an option or group of options for which auditing can be turned on or off.

The current actions in CA OM Web Viewer that are auditable are

• Annotation [for CA View only]

  This section includes:

  • Annotation - Add, change description, or delete
  • Note - Add, Change note access type (public/private), delete
  • Bookmark - Add or delete
• File Upload

  Uploading a file to the LPD server.

• Emailing of documents

  Attaching report data to an email

• Exporting of documents

  This section includes:

  • Exporting Data to a user’s computer
  • Viewing report date from Export preview panel
  • Viewing report date based on report index/value combination from Export preview panel
• Printing of documents

  Sending reports to a user’s printer

• Saving of documents

  Saving reports to a user’s computer.

• Viewing of documents

  This section includes:

  • Searching for search terms in Text Reports
  • Displaying report data from Text Reports
  • Displaying report data from other Non-text Report
• User logged in time

  This section includes:

  • User Logging in including Log in failure details
  • User Logging out
• Edit comments in report list [CA View only]

  Changing a report’s comment attribute.

Audit Log File Options

Log File

The log file is a comma separated value file (CSV). This log file can be found in the "web" directory of your current CA OM Web Viewer deployment. The name of this file will be in the following format:

   auditRecord_MM_DD_YYYY.csv,

Where

MM is the month, DD is the day, and YYYY is the year that the report was created.

File Rolling

CA OM Web Viewer allows you to determine if you want a rolling log file. With the rolling log file option, you automatically get a new log file after the period of time specified. You can have a new audit log file daily, weekly, or monthly.

Without the audit log rolling all auditing information will be put into one file.

Follow these steps to set auditing preferences:

1. From the Administration Tab, click the Preferences subtab.
2. Click Auditing Settings link.
3. Check or uncheck the following auditing preferences:
   • Annotation

     This choice is valid for CA View only.

     • Annotation

       This choice is valid for CA View only.

     • File Upload
     • Emailing of documents
     • Exporting of documents
     • Printing of documents
     • Saving of documents
     • Viewing of documents
     • User logged in time
     • Edit comments in report list
     • This choice is valid for CA View only
4. Locate the Log File section.

   If you want to keep a rolling log

   1. Check the Yes button
   2. Select a rolling file increment for the log.

      If you select weekly, there will be a new log file for each week.

5. Click Update at the top right of the pane.

   The Auditing Preferences are updated.