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[MM-A03] Event Details

Lists individual audit events with their date, time, user, object and duration.

Report document

Web Intelligence document [MM-A03] Audit - Event Details from the MetaMiner standard report pack. It reads the MetaMiner Database (MMDB) through the MetaMiner Standard universe. See Reports and Data.

What it answers

  • Exactly who did what to an object, and when.
  • How long each refresh, view, save or other action took.
  • Which application and session an event came from.

Who uses it: BI platform administrators and support teams investigating a specific object, user or incident. Usually opened by a drill link from MM-A01 or MM-A02.

Report tabs

Tab Shows
Audit Event Details (Last X Days) One row per audit event.
Audit Event Details (Last X Days) VTab Alternative layout of the same data.

Image of MM-A03 refreshed for one environment, Audit Event Details (Last X Days) tab

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Columns and measures

Group Columns
Event Action Date Time, Action Month (YYYY MM), Audit Event Type, Audit Session ID, Audit Session Interactive/Scheduled?, Audit User, Audit User CUID
Object Audit Object, Audit Object Type, Audit Object CUID, Audit Object Application Type, Audit Object Current/Obsolete?, Audit Object is a Current Document?, Document, Document is Deleted?
Location Environment, Audit CMSID, Folder Type, Folder Name, Folder Path Complete
Counts Nbr Events, Views, Refreshes, Prompts, Creates, Deletes, Modifies, Saves, Searches, Edits, Runs, Deliveries, Retrieves, Page Retrieves, Event Triggers
Durations View, Refresh, Prompt, Create, Delete, Modify, Save, Search, Edit, Run, Deliver, Retrieve and Page Retrieved, each in milliseconds; Refresh (sec)

Prompts

Prompt Required Answer What it does
Environments No Pick one or more Environments to include, listed by CMSID with their description. Leave empty for all. The prompts below list only values from the environments you pick.
FolderTypes No Pick one or more Folder types to include.
Folders No Pick one or more Folders to include. The list depends on the prompts above.
Users No Pick one or more BusinessObjects users to include.
Action Age (Days) Yes Type a value How many days back from today to report. For example 90 keeps the last 90 days of events.
AuditObjectCUIDs No Type one or more values Filled in by a drill link from another report. Leave empty when you refresh the report yourself.
Applications No Pick one or more BI applications that triggered the event, for example BI launch pad or the Job Server.
Include MetaMinerAdmin Ids Yes Pick one No leaves out audit events caused by the MetaMiner account itself.

Image of the MM-A03 Prompts dialog with Environments answered

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Input controls

Display controls change how the report shows its data:

Input control What it does
Prompt Selection Shows or hides the block under the header that lists your prompt answers. Spaced (default) shows it with a space between list items, Show shows it without spacing, Hide hides it.
Prompt Selection & Notes Shows or hides the block under the header that lists your prompt answers and notes. Spaced (default), Show or Hide.
Environment / CMSID Shows environments in the report body by display name or by CMSID. Filters and prompts always list CMSIDs.
Folder / Complete Shows the folder name or the complete folder path.
Number Format Switches large numbers to a short format, for example K for 1,000s.
View/Refresh/etc* Picks the action the activity measures count: View, Refresh, Prompt, Create, Delete, Modify, Save, Search, Edit, Run, Deliver or Retrieve.

Filter controls keep only the rows that match the values you pick: Content is Current/Obsolete?, Object is a Current Document?, Interactive/Scheduled?, Environment, Folder, Document, Object Type, User.

Image of the MM-A03 Input Controls panel

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Link Opens
Object name Opens the object in BI launch pad.

A drill link opens the target report through BI launch pad OpenDocument and passes the environment and the selected item as prompt answers.

Run the report

  1. In BI launch pad, open [MM-A03] Audit - Event Details from the folder where you imported the standard report pack.
  2. Refresh the document and answer the prompts.
  3. Use the input controls to change the display or narrow the results.

Data it needs: Audit data: the environment's audit database must be configured and audit collection turned on. See Audit and CMS Databases and Audit settings.