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Use

The Admin Traceability feature enables the logging of changes made to objects in the PCD or to portal related configurations. This includes changes made in the administration environment, as well as changes made via the Transport mechanism and the Generic Creator service (which automates content creation via XML). Changes made by users (for example, using Web Page Composer) are also logged. The Admin Traceability service writes its entries to the change log of the Java engine.

You can log all PCD objects, or select a specific set of object classes to log. You can also specify, for each debug severity level, a set of object paths to log. The following types of changes to PCD objects are logged:

  • Creating an object

  • Deleting an object

  • Renaming an object

  • Sorting the child list of an object

  • Redefining the target of a delta link

  • Importing a unit object

  • Changing permissions of an object

  • Deploying to GPAL applications that are already used by objects in the portal

Changes related to critical portal configurations are also written to the change log. The following are examples of portal configurations that are logged:

  • Changes to portal applications or to service configurations. For example, changing a property of a portal service.

  • Enabling, disabling, or clearing the navigation cache or the OBN cache.

  • Changes to the Desktop Rule Collection.

Note

Only objects in the PCD data namespace are logged. No personalization changes are logged.

The following topics are described: