Audit Message Types

The system issues processing-related and data-related audit messages. Process-related audit messages describe user actions and processing information and errors, such as steps occurring in a Process Control event or communications errors. Data audit messages are related to a specific document, interchange, message, or attachment in the system and provide information such as messages created, transferred, or delivered.

Note: Processing messages can be viewed in the Audit Log. Data audit messages can be viewed via the Tracking Information and Data Audit views.

The system assigns a Type value to all audit messages, which specifies the nature of the activity that initiated the audit message. The data audit message types are:

  • document
  • interchange
  • external data
  • session
  • message
  • attachment

The following table describes examples of processing and data audit messages:

Table 1. Audit message examples by type
Audit Message Type Example
Processing

When a user logs on to Sterling Gentran:Server® and starts the Sterling Gentran:Server client, the program writes the following audit message to the Audit Log:

1-1-1010 Gentran:Server client started
Processing When Process Control starts the Unattended program and it starts processing a session file, Unattended writes the following message to the Audit Log:
1530 Process Control - Started Session
Data When the Sterling Gentran:Server Executive Service performs overdue checking logic and finds that an interchange sent has not been acknowledged by the trading partner, the service writes the following data audit message:
1-2-3000 Acknowledgement status changed to Overdue