Enabling Auditing
  • 12 Aug 2024
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Overview

Users may configure the Portal to enable default Auditing; this allows the System to audit transactions involving all Entities, such as Folders, Assets, and Tasks.
Users can view an Audit Report by selecting an Entity and viewing the Audit History. Regarding the types of changes used for auditing, we use MERGE SQL commands whenever entities are saved to the database. The following list is changes used for auditing: Inserted, Updated, Deleted, Merge for data, Viewed for reports, Activity for logins/logouts, AD sync, module installation, password changes, import/export, and failed login attempts.

The examples below detail how to enable Auditing in the Portal and within Custom Data Structures. 

System Audit Warning

System-level Auditing should not always be on. It can excessively fill up the audit_entity table.


System Settings 

  1. From the Designer Studio, navigate to System > Settings

  2. Click Auditing Settings.

  3. From the Edit Default Auditing window, toggle the checkboxes for each desired Audit type under Activity Auditing and/or Data Auditing

    An Audit Type must be determined if Enable Auditing is selected under Data Auditing. In addition, when enabling Data auditing, this will not enable auditing at the system level and is required to record audit changes for a data structure. However, enabling any auditing action under Activity Auditing will enable auditing at the system level. This can lead to the audit_entity table filling rapidly and may lead to performance issues.


  4. Under Types To Audit, click ADD NEW. Then, search for the data type or find it via the drop-down menu under Type Name. Click OK to save this choice. 

  5. Under SETTINGS, select the desired Process setting.

    InTransaction

    All the updates are stored in the same transaction.

    Queued

    The updates do not share the Transaction of the main update; they are updated quickly but in a different transaction. (If data integrity is primary, then doing InTransaction is best.)

  6. If desired, users may set the number of days that the Auditing Session's History Data is archived via the Auto Archive History after Days box.

  7. Click SAVE to save the Default Audit Settings. The System will now Audit the set Entity transactions automatically. Audited Data can be viewed by creating a Report that uses Audited Entities as its Data Source. 


Custom Data Structures

Custom Data Structures can also be configured for Auditing. 

  1. From a Designer Project, right-click a pre-existing Custom Data Structure and select Edit or create a new Data Structure.

  2. From the ADVANCED category in the Data Structure's Properties panel on the right, check the Audit Changes checkbox. 

    Any Create, Update, or Delete action taken against this Data Structure will now be recorded. A default Audit Report is made available to users under System > Administration > Auditing. The same information can be accessed by querying the audit_entity table on the Decisions database.


Activity Auditing

The below table covers the settings found when editing default audit settings.

Setting

Description

Enable Audit for Report Executions

Viewing a Report will be recorded in the audit logs.

Enable Audit for User Login

User Logins will be recorded in the audit logs.

Enable Audit For Sessions

User Session creation and timeouts will be recorded in the audit logs.

Enable Audit for Log Settings

Any changes made to Log Settings from the portal will be recorded.

Enable Audit for Query Editor

Queries executed in the Query Editor will be recorded in the audit logs.

Enable Audit for Feature Installation

Installing features/modules will be recorded in the audit logs.

Enable Audit for Import Entities

Importing entities will be recorded in the audit logs.

Enable Audit for Export Entities

Exporting entities will be recorded in the audit logs.


Global Audit Report

The  Global Audit Report can be found under System -> Administration-> Auditing. This Report shows all the audit records captured across the system.


For further information on Settings, visit the Decisions Forum.


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