Bookshelf v7.7: About the Audit Trail Engine Business Service

The Audit Trail Engine business service is located in the Object Manager and stays active as long as the Object Manager is active. The purpose of the Audit Trail Engine business service is to capture changes (updates and deletes) to records and to store them in the designated format (database or Siebel File System, according to the audit trail mode selected). For the various data operations, if the auditing condition is met, the business component being audited triggers the Audit Trail Engine business service.

The methods listed in Table 13 are associated with the Audit Trail Engine business service. The Start, Stop, and ImportAll methods are accessible to an administrator and allow the performance of certain tasks.

Table 13. Exposed Methods in the Audit Trail Engine Business Service
Method	Mode	Internal Use Only	Description
Start	Both		Starts the Audit Trail Engine.
Stop	Both		Stops the Audit Trail Engine.
ImportAll	File only		Imports all the associated Audit Trail Item business component records.
AddTrailEntry	Both	X	For the person specified, creates an audit trail entry to the pertinent data structure (unsaved audit list).
CommitTrail	Both	X	Removes the uncommitted elements from the unsaved list and puts them on the saved list, and writes to the database or file if the cache size has been reached.
CrashRecover	File only	X	Saves file from local system to the Siebel File System.
Kill Unsaved Trail	Both	X	Kills the unsaved audit trail; this happens on an UndoRecord.

The easiest way to use these methods is through a workflow process. If you want to stop or restart the Audit Trail Engine, create a new workflow process, or reuse an existing one: create a business service node that implements the Stop method or the Start method. For general information about Siebel workflows, see Siebel Business Process Designer Administration Guide.