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Audit solution on alfresco 3.4

naval — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:49:29 GMT

Hi,Please help me in configuring audit trail in alfresco 3.4.5.And even how i can audit custom types event in alfresco.Thanks and regards,Naval

Re: Audit solution on alfresco 3.4

afaust — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:00:56 GMT

Hello,

have you tried looking at the documentation and wiki about Auditing?
In case of generic requests like you posted, it is difficult to help since we have no information on what you have already tried, where you might be stuck or what your general use case is.

Regards
Axel

Re: Audit solution on alfresco 3.4

naval — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 05:52:17 GMT

Thanks for your help..
I can able to see audited data in log file using audit configuration part in documentation.
Here i have a question how can i generate the report of audited data or may be check it on some user friendly UI.

regards,
Naval

Re: Audit solution on alfresco 3.4

afaust — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:41:32 GMT

Hello,

report generation based on auditing as well as a user friendly UI need to be custom implemented. Both are highly use-case dependant, which is why no standard UI / component is delivered out-of-the-box.

Regards
Axel

Re: Audit solution on alfresco 3.4

naval — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:18:28 GMT

I had look over all the tables mentioned in the https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Auditing_(from_V3.4), but there i cannot find audited data. I am struggling for retrieval of the audited data from database.. Could you please help, on which tables to refer to retrieve this data or Are there any APIs that can be used for this..
For example, I need report on number of documents read per day per user.. How would i proceed for this..

Thanks,
Naval

Re: Audit solution on alfresco 3.4

afaust — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:04:20 GMT

Hello,

for auditing, you should not need to manually retrieve the stored data from the database. There are services for that…

JavaDoc for Java service: http://dev.alfresco.com/resource/docs/java/repository/org/alfresco/service/cmr/audit/AuditService.html
Code from an existing module that uses the Java service: https://github.com/AFaust/alfresco-content-trends/blob/master/content-trends-modules/com.prodyna.alfresco.contenttrends.repo.module/src/main/java/com/prodyna/alfresco/contenttrends/repo/module/jobs/ContentTrendsConsolidator.java
ReST API examples: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Auditing_%28from_V3.4%29#Simple_Audit_Query

The problem with auditing is that you "only" record service invocations. There is virtually no guarantee that a certain service invocation means that the user read a document for instances. You can make an informed assumption based on the client that is in use and certain context information (e.g. "ReST X endpoint invoked"). So in order to have meaningful data, configuration of your audit application is key and you may very quickly find yourself implementing custom data generators / extractors in order to record context information for later evaluation.

Regards
Axel

Re: Audit solution on alfresco 3.4

gaurav_shirbhat — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 06:42:09 GMT

Please tell me about report generation in alfresco.
1. Report is created for contents information, am i right?
2. Report is automatically generated in alfresco or we have to create report?
3. I have to export that reports to pdf.
Please give me solution for above questions.