Auditing Changes in Profitability and Cost Management

You can monitor activity and changes in your application using the Audit feature in the Shared Services Console, and then generate audit reports detailing the results.

There are three types of audit reports available:

The audit reports contain activity details for the selected audit area, including the following information:

Auditing must be enabled before you can generate reports, as outlined in the following procedure. These reports can be exported as CSV files. See the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Security Administration Guide.

  To enable auditing:

  1. From EPM Workspace, select Navigate, then Administer, and then Shared Services Console.

  2. From the Shared Services Console, select Administration, then Configure Auditing.

    The Audit Configuration screen is displayed.

    Use the Audit Configuration screen to enable auditing, and select the areas to be monitored.

  3. Select Enable Auditing.

    The Allow Global Settings Over-ride and Select Tasks list are activated.

  4. Under Select Tasks, select the areas of the application to be enabled for audit. You can select an entire area, or expand each option to choose separate steps to monitor.

    Table 4. Profitability and Cost Management Audit Tasks

    Monitored AreaAvailable Monitored Tasks
    Stage

    • Create stage

    • Modify stage

    • Delete stage

    • Export stage

    • Import stage

    Driver

    • Create driver

    • Modify driver

    • Delete driver

    • Export driver

    • Import driver

    POV

    • Create POV

    • Modify POV

    • Delete POV

    • Export POV

    • Import POV

    Driver Selection

    • Create driver selection

    • Modify driver selection

    • Delete driver selection

    Assignment

    • Create assignment

    • Modify assignment

    • Delete assignment

    Assignment Rules

    • Create assignment rule

    • Modify assignment rule

    • Delete assignment rule

    • Create rule selection

    • Remove rule selection

    Cubes

    • Deploy calculation cube

    • Deploy reporting cube

    • Transfer data

    Genealogy

    • Calculate genealogy

    Scripts

    • Deploy allocation script

    • Deploy genealogy script

    • Deploy POV copy script

    • Execute allocation script

    • Execute genealogy script

    • Execute POV copy script

    Group operations

    • Copy assignments

    • Delete assignments

    • Delete assignment rules' selections

    • Copy driver selections

    • Delete driver selection rules

    • Delete driver selection exceptions

    Group import operations

    • Import stages

    • Import POVs

    • Import drivers

    • Import driver selections

    • Import assignments

    Group export operations

    • Export stages

    • Export POVs

    • Export drivers

    • Export driver selections

    • Export assignments

    Lifecycle Management (LCM)

    • LCM Load from File

    • LCM Save to File

    • LCM Export

    • LCM Import

  5. Click OK.

    A message is displayed to confirm the audit configuration has been saved.

  6. Click Yes.

  7. Optional: Generate audit reports to review audit results, as outlined in the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Security Administration Guide.