Manage audit
logs
Audit logs lists the actions that were performed on the devices monitored by OpenManage Enterprise. Log data help you or Dell EMC Support teams in troubleshooting and analysis. The audit log files can be exported to the CSV file format. See
Export all or selected data.
NOTE: To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary user privileges. See Role-based OpenManage Enterprise user privileges.
By clicking
OpenManage Enterprise and selecting the items under
Monitor, you can:
NOTE: An audit log is recorded when:
- A group is assigned or access permission is changed.
- User role is modified.
By clicking , you can manage the audit logs that OpenManage Enterprise
stores and displays about the tasks performed by using the OpenManage
Enterprise. For example, user login attempts, creation
of alert policies, and running different jobs.
- From the OpenManage Enterprise menu, under Monitor, select Audit Logs.
- To sort
data in any of the columns, click the column title.
On the Monitor page,
under Audit Logs, a list of different activities
performed is displayed with information about severity, time, user
name, message ID, system IP, category, and activity description.
- To quickly search
for information about an audit log, click Advanced Filters.
The following fields are displayed that act
as filters to quickly search for data.
- Enter or select
data in the following fields:
- Severity: Select the severity level of a log data.
- Start Time and End Time: Select the approximate start and end time when
the task was performed.
- User: Enter the username of the system that performed the task.
- Source
Address: Enter the IP address of the system that performed
the task.
- Category: Select a category to which the task belongs. All messages in that
category are displayed.
- Description
Contains: Enter the text or phrase contained in the log
data your are searching for. All logs with the selected text are displayed.
For example, if you enter warningSizeLimit, all the
logs with this text are displayed.
- Message
ID: Enter the message ID. If the search criteria matches,
all items in the list are removed and only the message ID you search
for is displayed.
- To remove the
filter, click Advanced Filters.
- To export the console logs as a .zip file, click .
NOTE: Currently, for any
M1000e chassis that is discovered, the date in the TIMESTAMP column
under Hardware Logs is displayed as JAN 12, 2013 in the CMC 5.1x and
earlier versions. However, for all versions of CMC VRTX and FX2 chassis,
the correct date is displayed.
To export the audit log data, see Export all or selected data.