topic Auditing in 3.4b in Alfresco Archive

Auditing in 3.4b

flopez — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:37:47 GMT

Hi!We had activated and used some of the Auditing services provided for Alfresco in 3.3g and below. The Wiki for the new Audit mechanism described in http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Auditing_%28from_V3.4%29 mentions that pretty much all changed, may be due to our lack of knowledge, but we have found t

Re: Auditing in 3.4b

mrogers — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:22:16 GMT

R.E. point 1, no setting audit.enabled is not enough to turn on auditing. You also need to configure what is audited. There's an example provided to get you started.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Auditing_%28from_V3.4%29#Worked_Examples

R.E. point 2, you would add that line to your debug configuration file or via JMX. I use a file called dev-log4.properties that lives in <Tomcat Home>/shared/classes/alfresco.extension.

Re: Auditing in 3.4b

derek — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:33:44 GMT

The first thing to do is to work through all the examples on the Wiki page.
As Mark pointed out, you put Log4J settings in log4j.properties or a log4j properties file extension.
Once you've gone through the Wiki examples, you should have a better idea of the APIs available. In the old audit mechanism, there were no Alfresco-supplied APIs to query the audit data - hand-cranked SQL was required. Now, the WebScript APIs provide that functionality and hand-cranked SQL is out. Of course, you can use the AuditService Java API as well.