Enabling and Purging the Audit Log

When you select the Enable Audit Generation option, the Server logs audit events for projects in the server configuration database. For example, the log records when change requests are created, and when a file is added. The audit log entries can be viewed from a client by selecting the Audit tab in the upper pane. This operation can be performed only on a server that is running.

Note: If setting the option to purge logs on server configuration startup, you need to restart your server configurations fairly regularly to avoid startup problems.

To enable the audit log

  1. Open the Server Administration tool. If you are using the Server Administration tool installed with the client, you can administer remote servers only.
  2. From the list of servers, select the server configuration that you want to change. If you have not yet logged on, you will be asked to do so.
  3. Click the Configure Server shortcut or Tools > Administration > Configure Server. The Configure Server dialog box appears.
  4. Select the Audits tab.
  5. Select the Enable Audit Generation check box.
  6. Optionally, to automatically delete entries after a specified length of time, select the Purge Audit Entries Older Than check box. (Clearing this check box keeps the entries indefinitely.) Type a number of days in the Days text box. The range is from 7 to 1000 days. For example, to delete entries when they become approximately one month old, type 30 days in the Day text box. When the server configuration starts, entries that exceed this purge limit are deleted.
  7. Click OK.
Parent topic: Audit Logs