Enabling Monitoring and Auditing

You enable monitoring and auditing on the Administration Server Configuration page

To enable monitoring and editing:

  1. Enable Monitor and Audit on the Administration Server Configuration page. See Enabling Monitor and Audit on the Server Configuration Page.

  2. Configure the Audit Policy Settings with Fusion Middleware Control (Enterprise Manager). See Configuring the Audit Policy Settings.

  3. (Optional) For non-English installations of Oracle Fusion Middleware Control that require a translated user interface, copy the translation files to the appropriate location. See Copying Translation Files (Optional).

  4. Restart WebLogic Server.

Enabling Monitor and Audit on the Server Configuration Page

You can turn on monitoring and auditing for the BI Publisher application.

To turn on monitoring and auditing:
  1. Click the Administration link.
  2. Under System Maintenance, click Server Configuration.
  3. Under the Monitor and Audit region, select the Enable Monitor and Audit check box.

Configuring the Audit Policy Settings

Configure Audit Policy settings in Oracle Fusion Middleware Control.

To configure the audit policy settings:

  1. In Oracle Fusion Middleware Control, under WebLogic Domain, right-click bifoundation_domain.
  2. From the menu, select Security and then Audit Policy.
    The Audit Policy page displays the audited applications under the bifoundation_domain.
  3. From the Audit Component Name list, select BI Publisher Server.
  4. Set the Audit Level to enable auditing for BI Publisher. An example is shown in the figure below.

Typically, set the Audit Level to Medium.

To customize the audit level for each event, select Custom from the Audit Level list. This setting enables you to set the audit level for each event and apply filters. Select a category (UserSession, ReportAccess, or ReportExecution) to view the available events.

The events that are audited for the BI Publisher server are:

  • User Login

  • User Logout

  • Report Request

  • Scheduled Report Request

  • Report Republish

  • Report Data Download

  • Report Download

  • Report Data Process

  • Report Rendering

  • Report Delivery

Copying Translation Files (Optional)

To have your Oracle Fusion Middleware Control (Enterprise Manager) user interface display in a non-English language, copy translation files from the Audit directory to the install directory.

If you require that your Oracle Fusion Middleware Control (Enterprise Manager) user interface displays in a non-English language, you must copy the BI Publisher translation files from the BI Publisher repository to the appropriate location in the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition installation directory for the BI Publisher audit event user interface components to display in the correct language when viewed in Enterprise Manager.

To copy translation files:
  1. Navigate to the Audit directory located under the BI Publisher repository: <BI Publisher deployment directory>/repository/Admin/Audit.
  2. Copy the *.xlf files from the Audit directory to the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition installation directory located at :/oracle_common/modules/oracle.iau_11.1.1/components/xmlpserver.

Restarting WebLogic Server

Restart the WebLogic Serve instance.

You can do this using Oracle Fusion Middleware Control, or if you are running Windows, you can select Stop BI Servers and then Start BI Servers from the Start menu.