Data Auditing

This function tracks changes to transactional data at the model level, such as when and by whom records were changed within a model.

Administrators control whether data auditing is active or not. To enable data auditing, ensure an environment is within your context, then choose Manage Data Audit.

For each model in the environment, you select a category and one or more of the following tasks to audit:

• EPM Add-in Input

• Data Manager Import

• Data Manager Clear

• Logic Script Execution

• Web Report Input

• Journal Input

• Business Rule Execution

• Ownership

• FIM Import

Viewing a summary of data audit settings

When managing data audit settings, you can choose View Audit Settings for All Categories to see a summary of the settings for the tasks and categories within the model.

Reporting on data audit information

Once activity is recorded, you can run a report that shows activity based on specified criteria (see Reporting on Data Changes).

Purging and archiving data audit logs

When selecting the tasks to audit for a category within a model, you can indicate whether you want to retain the logs of the data audits indefinitely or for a specific number of days. You must then run an AuditPurge package in Data Manager. Planning and Consolidation does not delete the logs; rather, it archives them after the number of days you indicate.

You can also set up Data Manager packages to archive data audit information. For more information, see the SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions, add-in for Microsoft Office help.

Enable Schedule

Data auditing can be scheduled per minute(s) or hour(s) and for a certain amount of records. Dividing the load may help processing time.

Save Data Audit

Data audit can be saved immediately by choosing Save Data Audit.