Auditing Overview

Use the Audit feature to view tasks performed by users. You can filter audited tasks by audit type (for example, Data or Clear Cell Details), date range (for example, Yesterday or Last 60 Days), and user name.

You must be a Service Administrator to enable audit tracking, and to view and export audit information.

These are the types of user activities the system can log in the task audit:

Table 17-1 Tasks That Can Be Audited

Audit Types Tracked Changes

Dimension Administration

  • Dimension hierarchy: Adding a member or dimension; moving, deleting, and changing properties; renaming a member and dimension

  • Performance settings: Resetting a dimension's dense or sparse setting, changing the order of dimensions

Alias Table Administration

Changes to alias tables: Creating, copying, renaming, deleting, and clearing

Data

  • Cell values

  • Supporting detail

  • Account annotations

  • Cell-level documents

Note:

The audit log only captures modifications if the data change occurs within a data form. If a modification occurs as part of, for example, a business rule calculation, a data map, or a direct data load to Oracle Essbase, it will not be captured in the audit log.

Launch Business Rules

Updates from calculation scripts and business rules (including runtime prompts)

Form Definition

Forms: Creating, moving, deleting forms (The audit record doesn't record how the design changed.)

Form Folder Administration

Folders: Created, moved, and deleted

Security

Access permissions to dimension members, forms, form folders, business rules, and task lists

Users Administration

Users added, changed, and deleted

Note: In a future update, information on Users Administration will no longer be included in audit reports. You can get this information using EPM Automate and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud REST APIs. See the following topics:

Groups Administration

Groups added, changed, and deleted; users added and removed

Note: In a future update, information on Groups Administration will no longer be included in audit reports. You can get this information using EPM Automate and EPM Cloud REST APIs. See the following topics:

Tasklist

Task lists: Created, updated, saved, moved, and deleted

Copy Data

Users' selections for Static Dimensions, Source Dimension, and Destination Dimension, including supporting detail, cell text, cell attachments, and data without any details

Clear Cell Details

Users' selections for clearing supporting details, comments, and attachments

Variables

Variables (substitution variables and user variables): Added, changed, and deleted

Application Administration

  • Changes to the login level for an application, including:

    • Running the Administration Mode job

    • Changing the system setting for Enable Use of the Application for (both when it's changed manually and when it's changed automatically during a database refresh)

    • Running the EPM Automate command setApplicationAdminMode

    • Using REST API to execute the Administration Mode job

  • Changes to the hybrid mode (Enable Hybrid Mode or Disable Hybrid Mode) for Planning Custom applications and FreeForm.

Report Artifacts

For Report, Shared Reports, Snapshot, Book, and Bursting Definition types:

  • Create: Name, Parent Name

  • Modify: Name, Parent, Content

  • Delete: Name

Documents

Documents added, modified, and deleted

The Audit page displays the following information:

  • Audit (task)

  • Source

  • Action

  • User

  • Name

  • Date

  • Details

  • Property

  • Old Value

  • New Value

All columns can be sorted in ascending or descending order.