information in view lists that are similar to Job and Event views.

Second, you can view the audit information for a particular record by pressing the Audit button when viewing the record. This will show all the Audit records relevant to the record. For example while viewing the ADMIN User Profile record you could press the Audit button to see all the Audit information for that record.

AUDIT INFORMATION
The Auditing records contain Who, What, Where and When information. Examples are:
• Dave edited job 1.2-3 on 01/01/2004 at 12:23:34.45
• Dale added user FRED on 02/02/2005 at 12:23:34.45UDITING
• Doug deleted calendar HOLIDAY on 03/03/2006 at 12:23:34.45
• Lisa submitted batch 123 on 04/04/2001 at 12:23:34.45
• Sue removed batch XYZ on 05/05/2005 at 12:23:34.45

The user you are logged in as to GECS will be recorded in the Audit record. There are
5 actions that are recorded as Audit entries. These are Adds, Deletes, Edits, Batch
Submits and Batch Removals. The Audit record contains the file name and record key
for the record that was affected. For performance reasons, the Auditing system does
not track which fi elds were changed during edits. It simply records that a record was
changed.

ACTIVATING THE AUDITING OPTION
Due to the potential large amounts of data that might be generated, it is possible that enabling Auditing could slow down your system operation. Therefore Auditing is disabled by default. When disabled, you will not see any references to Auditing in Administrator or the Web Manager.

To enable auditing, use the Workstation setup program, client programs page and check the Enable Auditing field.

Once this has been enabled, the Administrator, Web manager and other utility
programs will create Audit records when data is changed by users. An Audits folder
with default views will be displayed in the Administrator and Web Client programs.

Note that the system does not record data changes generated by the DBMS or Controller programs. Also note that no Audit records are created for changes to the Events, Alerts and Audit files.

The GECSRBLD and GECSCONV programs do not add Audit records.

EDITING AUDIT RECORDS
Audit records cannot be edited or deleted once they are created. They cannot be accessed through the SDK or by using ODBC. The only way to delete Audit records is to trim them with the built in Purge feature.

PURGING AUDIT RECORDS
Depending on how often you make system changes, it is possible that the Audit fi le can grow quite large. The DBMS program can automatically trim the Audit fi le. By default, GECS will keep Audit records for 7 days before deleting them. You can change this by making the following entry in GECS.INI in the [DBMS] section:
   AuditPurge=7
Changing the ‘7’ to another number of days will change how many days of Audit information is maintained. If you change the number of days to ‘0’, the DBMS will stop trimming the old records completely. The DBMS must be restarted before this entry is recognized.

SECURITY
If a user is authorized to view event records in their User Profi le record, they are authorized to view the Audit information through Audit Views. To view the audit information for a particular record, users need only be authorized to view the particular record. For example, to view the Audit records for the HOLIDAY calendar, the user need only be authorized to view the HOLIDAY calendar.

AUDITS FOLDER AND VIEWS
GECS Audit records can be displayed in customizable lists. You can update the Views or add your own.

Right click on the View name (such as All Audits) and select View Properties to update the filtering that can be applied to the view of audits.

By default, GECS ships with the following views of Audit lists:
   All Audits
   Audits By User
   Job Audits
   System Audits
   Todays Audits
These default audit views can be modified but cannot be deleted. You can create your own views by right clicking on the Audits folder and selecting the New View option. You can modify views by right clicking on the view and selecting the View Properties option.

DASHBOARD AND DETACHED
To display the view in your dashboard window, right click on the view and select the Run in Dashboard option. You can also right click on the view to Run Detached displaying the view in a separate window.

AUDITS LISTS
The information displayed in the lists can be sorted ascending or descending by clicking on the column headers of the lists. You can also right click on list column headers to display a record count or print the list.

You can select multiple items in lists by highlighting the items or by clicking the shift key and using the up and down arrow keys. An arrow will denote the items are selected.