View Audit Help

View Audit allows you to view past and current application server accesses. The page can be used during development or debugging to view the inputs, outputs and errors that occurred during processing. The page can also be used by an Administrator to view who accessed what options and when. This can be helpful in determining how much a user accesses the system and what options they access.

You can narrow the Audit list that is viewed by selecting a particular User ID, Option ID or IP. You can select an additional User ID, Option ID or IP with a logical AND or OR condition to further narrow the list. For example you can specify to view only accesses by User ID 'Bob' and Option ID 'Orders'. A 'From Date' and 'To Date' can be specified to limit the list to a desired time period.

If the ‘Only if S_Msgno’ checkbox is checked only those accesses that recorded an error will be counted or shown. This is helpful for ongoing monitoring and debugging.

If the ‘Only Action=Input’ checkbox is checked only those accesses where the Action field is equal to ‘Input’ will be counted or shown. These would typically be when the Option is chosen from the User’s Menu Options and provides a more accurate count of User and Option usage.

When viewing the audit file, if interested in statistics only, you can use one of the Summary List options.
Summary by Option will provide a Count of the number of times each Option ID was accessed.
Summary by User will provide a Count of the number of times each User ID accessed.
Summary by User & Option will list each User and each Option they accessed and a Count of the number of times they accessed each of them.

The detailed audit list can be displayed in ascending or descending sequence.

The columns that are shown for each access are the User ID, IP, Option ID, Start (date/time), Action, S_IntMsg (DynamicXport internal message), S_Msgno (application message) and Extended Log. Scrolling over the S_Msgno column fields will display the error message for the message number. If an Extended Log was processed for a transaction, the Extended Log column can be clicked to view the Extended Log Input and/or Output fields and values.  Extended Logs can be turned on globally for all users or a selected IP #, as well as by User or Option.