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Chapter 9:Audit Trail Report
Generating a Report
Generating a Report
In order to generate an audit trail report you need to
Note: It is important to remember that the number of
days you set in the Duration of History (in Days) in the
specify the following fields in the Audit Trail Report
Audit Trail Control module will dictate the absolute limits
program.
of when you can gather records. If you set the duration
for 14 days, a Beginning Date before 14 days from today
Report Dates Available
The first category is called Report Dates Available.
is invalid because all auditing records beyond 14 days
have been deleted.
This has two fields, Date of First Entry (UTC) and Date
of Last Entry (UTC). These fields represent the absolute
limits of your date definitions;obviously you cannot ask
for reports of changes in your database before it was
installed or beyond today’s date. Therefore, you are
limited to the period of time between these two dates as
listed in the fields.
End Report
End Report allows you to delineate the utmost time
limits that your report will collect information. In other
words, it determines the last day to be included in your
report. Both the Ending Date and Ending Time field
Begin Report
Begin Report has two fields. You can set the extent of
your report by defining in the Beginning Date field the
exact day from which you want to check all system
activity, though the default is today’s date. You further
clarify this with the next field, Beginning Time, which
defaults to 12:00:00 a.m.
define it.
The Ending Date field defaults to the current date, but
this can be changed to an earlier date if you want to
define a specific time period (for example, a Beginning
Date of January 1st to an Ending Date of January 15th.
The Ending Time field defaults to 11:59:59 pm but this
can also be changed to your specifications.
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