topic Re: Direct audit logs to a file in Alfresco Forum

Direct audit logs to a file

mfoster — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:00:10 GMT

Is there an easy, documented way to enable audit logging to a file instead of the database? I've read the Admin guide around auditing, but apart from actually enabling logging in the global-properties file, I've found nothing to help accomplish this. All of the documentation is gear towards java dev

Re: Direct audit logs to a file

afaust — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 06:02:27 GMT

There is no such functionality that could be configured in the out-of-the-box Alfresco platform. The slides you have found talk about specific, custom implementation to enable this. Without Java implementation you won't get to the point you want to get to.

Re: Direct audit logs to a file

mfoster — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:38:54 GMT

From listening to that presentation and looking at the slides, it sounded like you could just drop an xml file into the extensions directory and Alfresco would just automically pick that up. I've found a audit-services-context.xml file here [1] and I think that's what they reference in the presentation. However, my attempts at dropping this file in cause Alfresco to not be able to authenticate me.

[1] community-edition-old/audit-services-context.xml at master · Alfresco/community-edition-old · GitHub