Auditing Administration

Specialized Administration > Analyzing System and Business Information > Auditing Administration

The Auditing Administration utility provides the ability to capture information about events that change primary business objects such as CAD documents or parts. Windchill’s security auditing feature provides a mechanism to enable event-based logging that provides a historical record of who did what that caused changes in the Windchill database. Two types of predefined events are supported: service events and summary events. 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.

The tables below describe the Auditing Administration links found on the Utilities page under the Site

and Organization

contexts:

Site Context Auditing Administration Links	Description
Audit Log Purge Management	Site administrators can purge the historical audit logs by date. Audit records are purged using a First-In-First-Out methodology by specifying the Purge Records Through date. The administrator can elect to save the audit records to a Windchill document (wt.doc.WTDocument) by selecting Save purged records to a Document.
Usage and License Reporting	(Windchill PDMLink, Windchill ProjectLink, and Arbortext Content Manager only) Site administrators can view and distribute usage reports.
License Usage Reporting	(Pro/INTRALINK only) Site administrators can view and distribute license usage reports.
Security Audit Report Queries	Site administrators can view and execute the queries that were saved in the site context.
Security Audit Reporting	Site administrators can generate reports using various filtering mechanisms including date, event, organization, context, object type, and user. The report can be previewed, generated, and exported to a file immediately, or the report generation criteria can be saved for later execution.

Organization Context Auditing Administration Links	Description
Organization Usage Reporting	(Arbortext Content Manager, Windchill PDMLink, and Windchill ProjectLink only) Organization administrators can view usage reports for the organization.
Security Audit Report Queries	Organization administrators can view and execute queries that have been saved in the organization context.
Security Audit Reporting	Organization administrators can generate reports using various filtering mechanisms including date, event, context, object type, and user. The report can be previewed, generated, and exported to a file, or the report generation criteria can be saved for later execution.