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PRINT ACTIVITY LOG (SSA0615)
This option allows you to display a history of events reflecting access to your system. To produce an activity log,
you must first have Activity Tracking turned on in the Security Configuration. If it is set to be on, you will be
prompted for a beginning and ending Date/Time range to include in this report. The number that will be prompted
for is in the following format.
Year/Month/Day/Hour/Minute/Second
or
040917171528
The format illustrated here would represent September 17, 2004 followed by 5:15:28 P.M. All time is calculated in
military time format. When you select this beginning or ending range, you may press enter to use the near match
scroll search to find the exact reference to include on this report. Therefore, you may print this report in a wide
variety of ranges including months, weeks, days or hours. The results that print on the report will vary depending on
how you have the Security Configuration set. It may, however, contain a variety of data if you have changed the
configuration over a period of time.
In the configuration, you may choose to implement Activity Logging at three (3) levels. These levels include the
following choices:
•
Successful Login
•
Login Attempts
•
Option Selection
Based on the system being configured for either "Successful Login" or "Login Attempts," the report will print the
Date, Time, User ID, Event (Login or Logout) and its Code. Codes are numbers such as "0" for a normal
occurrence such as a normal login or logout. Code "1" illustrates that the login attempt was unsuccessful.
If you have the system configured for "Successful Login," the only information that will print on the report will be
those logins where the user was successful in getting into the system. If the system is configured for "Login
Attempts," the report will include both successful logins as well as those attempts where the user was unsuccessful
in getting into the system. The System Manager may want to set this flag occasionally just to verify who is
attempting to access the system and is failing.
By setting the system to "Option Selection," the system will be tracked at all possible levels. This includes all
logins and logouts, successful or not, and once logged in, which options the user selected and whether they
encountered any errors or not.
This is the ideal report variance for System Managers who want to see clearly everything that all users are doing in
their system. However, this can become a disk intensive option to have turned on. Therefore, occasional purging of
files may be required to free up additional disk space.
When this option is selected the event code will go beyond whether the user logged in or not, it will show the
specific System and Option ID that the user accessed. It will also include the company that was affected. You may
print this option as often as desired. When the report is completed, you will be automatically returned to the menu.
The following page shows a sample of the report with the Activity Logging Level set in the Security Configuration
to "Option Selection."
The information included on the report includes the following fields.
Fields:
- Date
- Time
- User ID
- Event (System, Option ID, Login/Logout)
- Company
- Code
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