Auditing
WebSphere Portal ships an auditing function that allows users to log certain events and their originators into a separate log file. This file can then be used to track administrative activities. For each event the timestamp, an optional transaction ID, the user performing the action, and individual event details are logged. If the user performing the action (for example, Bob) is being impersonated by another user (for example, Alice), the user is shown as [Bob[Alice]] in the log file.
You can use the auditing function on the following events:
To activate and configure the auditing function, modify the auditing service settings in the Auditing Service using the steps provided in the Setting service configuration properties file.
- Creating, modifying and deleting users and groups
- Creating, modifying and deleting portlet applications by using the portal user interface
- Assign and revoking roles to and from users
- Modify role blocks
- Modify resource ownership
- Creating, modifying and deleting protected resources
- Externalizing and internalizing resources
- Install and uninstalling Web modules
- Create and deleting application roles
- Assign and revoking application roles to and from users
- Add and deleting roles to application roles
- Initializing a database domain
- Creating, modifying and deleting portlet applications by using IBM Lotus Component Designer.
- Start and ending impersonating a user or impersonating a user without the appropriate permission
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Monitoring
Related tasks
Set service configuration properties