Auditing (BI4)
SAP BusinessObjects includes a powerful auditing capability integrated within it. The auditing system captures all system activity including what actions users have performed on an ongoing basis.
For example, let's suppose Martha, a member of the Sales Operations team, is responsible for reviewing the company's weekly sales forecasts each Monday. The first thing she does is log onto her computer and launch her company's BI Launchpad application using a web browser. After going through several folders, she finally right-clicks and selects View to review the report. It appears that the report, which is a Web Intelligence report, has old data. She refreshes so it now reflects current information. Then, she proceeds to re-save the report, but to her Favorites folder. The following events (abbreviate details shown) may be captured:
9:01:05 | LOGON
9:12:07 | DOCUMENT RETRIEVED
9:12:07 | VIEW
9:16:07 | PAGE RETRIEVED
9:24:05 | FORMATTING APPLIED
9:26:05 | OBJECT CREATED
9:26:09 | TEMPLATE SAVED
Tip
Some objects have the term base in them. This refers to, if present, a propery of the audited object's underlying source object. For example, if we're examining the audit properties of an instance and we wanted to learn about when that instance's originating (base) report was created, we would use the Base Created object.
Universe Class |
Object Name |
Description / Purpose |
|---|---|---|
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CMSID |
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Year |
Year the action happened |
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Quarter |
Quarter the action happened |
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Quarter Year |
Quarter + Year the action happened |
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Month Date |
Month date the action happened |
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Month Year Date |
Month/Year the action happened |
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Month Number |
Month number the action happened |
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Days Ago |
Days ago the action happened |
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Day Of Month |
Day of the month the action happened |
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Day Of Week |
Day of the week the action happened |
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Hour Of Day |
Hour of the day the action happened |
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Audit Date Time |
Audit date time |
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Base Created |
Date/time the original object was created. This is essentially a reference to the non-instance, or "base" report when auditing instance+base reports. |
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Base Kind |
The kind or type of the original (base) object. This is essentially a reference to the non-instance, or "base" report when auditing instance+base reports. |
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Base Object Name |
The kind or type of the original (base) object. This is essentially a reference to the non-instance, or "base" report when auditing instance+base reports. |
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Base CUID |
The CUID of the original (base) object. This is essentially a reference to the non-instance, or "base" report when auditing instance+base reports. |
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Base Parent CUID |
The base object's parent CUID. |
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Event ID |
Event ID - unique only to that particular CMSID |
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Event Type Name |
Name of the Event being audited |
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Last User Name |
Most recent person to have audited this object |
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Object Name |
Name of the audited object |
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Object CUID |
CUID of the audited object |
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Object Type |
Type |
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Folder CUID |
Folder CUID |
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Parent CUID |
Parent CUID |
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Server CUID |
Server CUID , or the server where this action was audited |
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Session ID |
The related Session ID to this audit event. Sessions can be found in the AUDIT_SESSIONS table as well as the Sessions - Audit class. |
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Status Name |
The status of the event |
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User Name |
User name of the person responsible for the action |
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User CUID |
User UID |
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Nbr Events |
Total number of events related to the action |
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Nbr Users |
Total number of users related to the action |
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Nbr Users (distinct) |
Distinct total number of users related to the action |
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Nbr Objects |
Total number of objects |
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Nbr Objects (distinct) |
Distinct total number of objects |
See also