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How to


Products: Automation Server, AS-B, Enterprise Server, AS-P, Virtual Project Servers
Functionalities: User Management
Product version: 1.9
12/14/2016

Disabling Audit Trail for a Group of Users

You disable audit trail for a group of users that do not need auditing, such as users who can only view the objects in the system. To disable audit trail for a user, you must disable audit trail for all user account groups the user is, directly or indirectly, a member of. Audit trail is by default enabled.

Note:

  • The system retains a user's historic audit trail even if the user is deleted from the system.

  • Audit trailing is enabled by default.

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An audit trail tracks all actions of a user that has logged on to the system. For example, you can view when a user logged on or off WorkStation, what commands the user made, and if the user changed or removed an object. Not all user actions are logged. For example, the system does not log user interface navigation and workspace switching.

For each user action, the system logs the following information:

  • User name and domain name

  • Date and time of the logged action

  • Path of the object that was changed

  • Type of action, such as Object created

  • Old values and new values

The audit trailing log shown in WorkStation is simple a filtered Event view that shows user related events. You can limit the number of events that are shown in the Audit trail log:

  • Select a time span

  • Select how many of the most recent events to view.

Note:

  • The system retains a user's historic audit trail even if the user is deleted from the system.

  • Audit trailing is enabled by default.

Audit Trail Configuration at the User Account Group Level

Audit trailing is enabled and disabled at the user account group level in the user account group policies. The default setting is that audit trail is enabled.

A user inherits the settings from all user account groups the user is a member of. To activate audit trailing for a user, enable audit trailing for one of the user account groups the user is a member of. To disable audit trail logging for a user, you must disable audit trail logging for all user account groups that the user is a member of.

In addition, you can enable audit trailing as a policy in a user account group.

 
action_zoom_plus_stroke The Policies tab with audit trailing enabled
Figure: The Policies tab with audit trailing enabled

To disable audit trail for a group of users

  1. In WorkStation, on the Tools menu, click Control Panel .

  2. On the Control Panel toolbar, select the SmartStruxure server.

     
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  3. Click Account management .

  4. In the Domain list, select the domain the user account group belongs to.

     
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  5. In the User Account Groups list, select the user account group.

  6. Click Policies .

  7. Clear the Enable Audit Trailing box.

     
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  8. Click the Save button

     
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See Also

  • Audit Trailing of User Activity
  • User Account Group – Policies Tab
  • User Account – Audit Trailing Events Tab
  • Enabling Audit Trail for a Group of Users
  • Viewing an Audit Trail Log