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Use

You can use this procedure to get an overview of the course signature processes took and evaluate all activities performed in the course of the signature process.

Note Note

If you only want to analyze the security-relevant events that occurred both in the context of digital signatures and during other activities in the SAP System, use the CCMS alert monitor to analyze the Security Audit Log instead (see Alert Monitor ).

End of the note.

Procedure

  1. Call up the log for the digital signature as follows:

  2. Area

    Choose:

    Engineering Change Management (ECH)

      Reporting   Log for Digital Signature  

    Process Management (PP-PI)

      Evaluations   Log for Digital Signature  

    Batch Record (PP-PI)

      Goto   Log for digital signature  

  3. Enter the criteria for log selection and choose  ( ) .

The overview of the logs that the system selected appears. The following data is displayed:

  • In the top screen area, the logs' header data, that is, the date and time, the signatory name, the number of log messages, and the reason for the signature

There is exactly one log for each signature attempt.

  • In the bottom screen area, the messages of the logs selected, that is, the result of the signature steps and all relevant signature data

Messages are marked according to their type and logs are marked according to the most serious message type they contain:

Icon

Message Type

 ( )

Information

 ( )

Warning

 ( )

Error

 ( )

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In addition, the following log classes are highlighted in different colors:

Log or Error Class

Text Color

Signature process canceled

Log red, message highlighted in yellow

Wrong password, name not maintained, missing SSF info

Log and message highlighted in yellow

  1. Use the following functions to analyze the logs:

  • If you only want to display messages of a particular type, choose the corresponding icon in the symbol bar at the bottom of the screen.

  • If you only want to display messages of a particular log, double-click the log in the top screen area. By double-clicking the higher-level node, the system again displays all logs of the corresponding object type.

  • To display the long text for a message, choose  ( ) in the corresponding line in the bottom area of the screen.