The auditing framework provides a mechanism to enable event-based logging that provides a historical record of who did what that caused changes in the Windchill database. The security auditing feature also provides a mechanism to retain historical records of security related events, such as privilege changes, team changes, and denial of access. Security audit reporting is helpful to customers in highly regulated industries that need to identify events that may have resulted in a potential security breach.

The only events that are enabled out-of-the-box are system usage, organization usage, cross site request forgery events, and download events. Any other specific events that you want recorded in the audit log must be enabled on an individual basis. For more information, see Auditing Administration.