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Support for confidential logging and tracing
You can configure the adapter to prevent sensitive or confidential data, in the log and trace files, from being viewed by users without authorization.
Log and trace files for the adapter can contain data from your FTP server, which might contain sensitive or confidential information. Individuals without authorization need to view the sensitive customer data, for example, a support specialist must use the log and trace files to troubleshoot a problem.
To protect the data in such situations, the adapter provides the HideConfidentialTrace property. The HideConfidentialTrace property specifies whether you want to prevent confidential user data from displaying in the adapter log and trace files. When this property is enabled, the adapter replaces the confidential data with XXX.
The following types of information are considered potentially sensitive data and are hidden:
- The contents of a business object
- The contents of an event record
- User ID
- Business object data in an intermediate form, such as a comma-delimited version of a file
The following types of information are not considered user data and are not hidden:
- Business object schemas
- Transaction IDs
- Event IDs
- Call sequences