Configuring audit history

With Audit history, you can view historical changes to documents in a FileNet Content Manager repository. In IBM Administration Console for Content Platform Engine (ACCE), Audit History is for all types of items like documents, folders, and objects. In IBM Content Navigator (ICN), Audit History is for documents only.

About this task

Audit History is class level configuration. An administrator adds audit definitions to a specific class, enables auditing, and configures Audit History in Content Navigator. Users, with audit permissions, can view the event history.

Procedure

  1. Enable Audit History in ACCE.
    1. As the user, log in to ACCE.
    2. In the Domain, go to your Object Store environment where you want to enable auditing. Click the Properties tab. Select the Enable Auditing property and set the value to Yes.
  2. (Administrator only) Add Audit Definitions to a specific class.

    Audit History is class level configuration. Add audit definitions to a specific class.

    1. In the Data Design directory, select a class definition. Go to the Classes directory.
    2. Select the Audit Definitions tab and click New.
      The New Audit Definition dialog displays and you can add how an event is audited.
  3. Configure Audit History in ICN for the repository and desktop.
    1. On the FileNet P8 repository pane, select the Configuration Parameters tab. For Document History, select Enable.
    2. At the Desktop pane, go to General. For Document History, select Enable.
  4. Users can view the audit history page in ACCE and in ICN.
    1. Log in to a desktop with Document History enabled and go to the Properties of a document.
      The History tab displays the events. For more viewing details, see Viewing audit history.