Viewing Audit Trail Logs

Audit Trail Logging provides access to more detailed information from a device.

You configure the Audit Trail Log from the Configuration dialog.

To view the Audit Log, select View>Audit Trail. The Audit Trail log dialog displays:

Depending how you have configured the Audit Log, the log displays detailed information about devices, messages display for xpt actions for a Router and variable changes within CLFs. You may also export information to a log file.

The Audit Log view consists of an expandable list of events at the top of the view, A 'latest line display' will appear when the grid has been paused to view past events. This display will show the latest event to have occurred on the system. Like each of the views it can be closed, automatically hidden using the drawing pin icon in the title bar of the view, or moved and resized to suit the current application or users preferences.

Each event displays the following parameters:

No.

This is a unique identifier number assigned when the message is received.

Time

This is the date and time the message was received. The time is in the form of hours:minutes:seconds:frames.

Source

This parameter displays the source of the message (for example, application or card type).

Description

This string displays a description of the event received and, if applicable, the path.

IP Address (or other)

Note that the information that displays in this column depends on the data you are viewing. If you are logging the communications to and from a device, then this column will normally contain the IP address of the device.

Clearing the Audit Log

The Clear Audit Log button clears all the historic data from the audit log. If you have configured the Audit Log to Clear Audit Log on Application Setup (by selecting the check box option in the Audit Log Configuration dialog), the historical log data to will be cleared every time the application is started. For more information, see the "Configuring the Audit Dialog" topic in the CommandCenter Configuration section.

Export

Use the Export feature to export the log, a specific message or group of messages.

File

Click the ellipses button, browse to the location you want to save the file. Name the file.

Export Entire Log

Accept the default setting to export the entire log.

Export Log Selection

Select this option to specify a First ID and a Last ID to export an error message or a group of error messages to the log.