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About Siebel Audit Trail

Siebel Audit Trail creates a history of the changes that have been made to data in Siebel Business Applications. Audit Trail functionality is enabled in Siebel Business Applications by default.

Siebel Business Applications support various degrees of auditing:

• At the simplest level, each data record contains the following fields, which store the date and time of each change made to the record, and values identifying the user who made the change:
  • CREATED
  • CREATED_BY
  • LAST_UPD
  • LAST_UPD_BY

    With additional configuration, you can generate an activity for additional levels of auditing. This configuration is best used when there are limited needs for auditing, for example, just a few areas to track.

    NOTE:  If Siebel Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) implements anonymous logins, then Siebel Audit Trail cannot relate a change to the specific user who made the change.

• Siebel Business Applications can maintain an audit trail of information that tells when business component fields have been changed, who made the change, and the value of the field before and after the change. It is also possible to maintain an audit trail of when the business component fields have been viewed or exported and who viewed or exported the fields.

  You can also configure Siebel Audit Trail to determine the scope of the audit. You can choose to audit all activity, or to limit the scope of auditing to those operations performed by certain responsibilities, positions, or employees.

• Using Siebel Workflow, you can configure workflow processes to save information on changes to specific business components.
• You can also attach scripts to the business component Write_Record event and save information about the transaction.

NOTE:  Be aware that enabling high levels of auditing, for example, log level 5, can have an adverse impact on performance.

Restrict access to the audit records, and archive and delete audit records regularly. For information on configuring and using Siebel Audit Trail, see Siebel Applications Administration Guide.