Configuration Overview

You can configure the Audit Notification System in a variety of ways to suit your needs. This topic provides an example scenario and explains your configuration options at a high level.

Monitoring (or auditing) processing activity is crucial to pinpointing and correcting errors. The Audit Notification System is designed to help you specify the errors and system activity you want to monitor, allow you to monitor and respond to errors as efficiently as possible, and allow you to notify the appropriate people when action must be taken to correct an error. Use the Audit Notification System for the following activities:

  • Modifying and adding audit messages
  • Restricting display of messages you do not want to view on the Audit Log
  • Designating individuals to be notified when specific errors occur
  • Configuring multiple responses (notifications) to the same error
  • Sorting your Audit Log display as you prefer for easy reference

Using the Audit Notification System, you could define a new audit message to be generated whenever the system receives an invoice with a total that is higher than a specified dollar amount. Then you might configure a notification to be e-mailed to the specified person who needs to respond to the invoice activity.

Audit message information

An audit message summarizes processing and user activity information, such as:

  • Steps occurring in a Process Control event
  • A user editing a document
  • A user creating a mailbox
  • Processing error information (such as translation errors or partner not found)
  • Communications errors
  • System errors such as database errors and network errors

Event ID

The Event ID number is the same for all Audit Log entries generated from the same Process Control event, user session, Mailbox event, or system-generated event. By default, entries with the same Event ID are grouped together in the Audit Log (sorted by date and time within the event). This makes locating related events on the Audit Log quick and easy.

If two Process Control events executed concurrently, the different Event ID associated with the Audit Log entries for each makes it easier for you to determine which entry corresponds with which event.