Audit Log How To Guide
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Overview
The Audit Log is where PINsafe maintains an activity log for users. This article describes how to configure auditing within PINsafe and considerations to take when generating reports on audit data. It's possible to configure a schedule for the audit log tidy and the audit log length you wish to retain (in days).
For more information on querying the audit data, see MySQL Queries How To Guide.
Prerequisites
PINsafe stores Audit Log information from version 3.4 onwards.
Default Audit Log settings
By default it should be noted that the default time period that audit logs are kept is 30 days. This is important to note if you wish to generate reports on this information.
Audit Log Tidy
The schedule for audit log tidy, is under Server -> Jobs.
If you set this to "Never" then the audit log would never be cleared. This would mean that the audit table would grow continuously, which might become a problem in the long term, especially where disk space is limited.
Alternatively if you clear this regularly then you should note that any reports you run on this data will only go as far back as the specified audit log length in conjunction with when the audit logs were last tidied.
Audit Log Length
Configure the audit log length under Policy -> General. You can set this to be as long as you like, and audit records will be kept for that length of time.
