This documentation introduces you to Actian Zen AuditMaster, a monitoring and auditing application for Zen Enterprise Server and Cloud Server. It leads you through installation or upgrade, configuration steps, and then explains how to work with the application. Important topics include end-user and administrator tasks in Zen database environments, both with and without Zen security features enabled.
The following topics provide an overview of AuditMaster and its features.
AuditMaster is a transaction monitoring product for tracking access to and changes in data. It provides a detailed audit trail that captures the following information for every transaction in a database:
•Who accessed a record or performed a change
•What change took place
•When the access or change occurred
•Where the access or change originated
•How the change was made
AuditMaster monitors databases, not client applications. It logs access to the database as well as changes made to data, including the reading of records even if no change is made.
AuditMaster creates a comprehensive audit trail. Every time a monitored data file changes, AuditMaster logs it both before and after the change, making it possible to recover from posting or data entry errors.
Features of AuditMaster
To provide a secure audit trail, AuditMaster offers features to enable you to do the following:
•A comprehensive logging system Capture events in your database and snapshots of database records before and after the events occur, whether transactions originate from third-party applications or within the Zen system.
•A query builder Create, customize, and manage queries.
•Alerts Use queries to run against events captured by AuditMaster and send event information to Windows system logging for various purposes such as security, administration, and notification.
•Archive manager Store and retrieve your historical information, using data compression if needed.
