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- View the user activity audit trail
View the user activity audit trail
Administrators use the User Activity Audit Trail to view actions performed by users in their login group. You can filter this activity by username, activity, date, or any combination. The User Activity Audit Trail also includes the activities of deleted users.
- In the left navigation pane, click the Settings icon
(
).
- From the Monitor System section, click View User Activity Audit Trail.
- From the User drop-down list, select a user, or to view activities for
all users, select --.
Deleted users are denoted in the drop-down list with the (deleted) status appended to their usernames.
- In the Start Date and End Date
fields, specify a time period for which to include user activities, or before or
after a specific date. Enter dates in the format MM/DD/YYYY, or click the
Calendar icon
to select dates.
To include all activity for all users and activities, leave these fields blank.
- Select the activities that you want to include in the report.
- To include or exclude specific activities, select or clear activity check boxes (such as Login Failed).
- To include or exclude all activities listed for the category, select or clear category check boxes (such as Authentication).
- To include all activities, click Check All.
- To clear all check boxes, click Clear All.
Note:
To include Publish, Rename, and Copy activities, select the appropriate Edit activity. - Click View User Activity.
The User Activity Audit Trail provides the following information:
Column Description ID
Unique activity identifier.
Username
Username of the user who performed the activity.
Note:
The report denotes deleted users by appending (deleted) to the username.Session
Unique identifier for the user's Oracle Empirica Signal session.
IP Address
IP address of the computer used to connect to the application. In cases where the connected user is a system user, the IP address displays ::1 (local).
Activity Name
Category and name of the activity. Activity Date Date and time when the user activity occurred. The date and time format is determined by a site option, and by your time zone preference.
Additional Information
Details about the activity that was performed. This might include the name and unique identifier of an object where the identifier is in parentheses, such as CaseSeries=My Case Series(533). For system errors, an error ID appears. The Signal server log file contains the same error identifier and more details about the error.
For information about viewing, printing, or downloading tables or changing the way data displays in the User Activity Audit Trail, see About tables.
Parent topic: Monitor the system