Introduction to audit logs

You can choose to keep audit logs within the Asta Enterprise system. If audit logging is enabled, the Asta Enterprise system creates two types of audit log, stored in a folder of your choice:

Standard audit logs that record which users perform which actions, the date and time on which the actions are performed and the application that was used to perform the actions.
Usage logs that record the dates and times at which users log onto and log out of projects.

You can display both types of audit log from within Server Admin.

You can enable or disable audit logging for each data source. Server Admin creates a subfolder for each data source for which audit logging is enabled. Every project in the data source has its own audit log file, <project name>.LOG, and its own usage log file, <project ID>_USAGE.LOG (where <project name> and <project ID> are the name and ID of the project respectively).

Project audit logs continue to grow indefinitely, so if you edit a project regularly, you should delete the audit log files occasionally so that they do not take up too much disk space.

You can configure Server Admin so that new data sources are set to produce audit logs automatically, by setting options for new data sources.