Bookshelf v7.8: 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. 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 12 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 12. Exposed Methods in the Audit Trail Engine Business Service
Method	Internal Use Only	Description
Start		Starts the Audit Trail Engine.
Stop		Stops the Audit Trail Engine.
AddTrailEntry	Yes	For the person specified, creates an audit trail entry to the pertinent data structure (unsaved audit list).
CommitTrail	Yes	Removes the uncommitted elements from the unsaved list and puts them on the saved list. It also writes the elements to the database or to a file if the cache size has been reached.
Kill Unsaved Trail	Yes	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.