AuditMaster Control Center (AMCC) is the user interface for the AuditMaster application. Its window displays a list of Zen server installations configured for AM monitoring. As you work with monitoring tasks, it provides various information and options.
A Zen server database where AuditMaster is installed and running is called an audit server. The monitor reads database activity and logs audit records which can then be queried and displayed in the AMCC client.
The data tree represents your auditing system. Each branch of the tree holds an AuditMaster server and its current view file, archive files, and saved queries. For more information, see AuditMaster Control Center Visual Reference.
AuditMaster Control Center Visual Reference
Once you have logged in as a user and run a query to display audit records, the AuditMaster Control Center (AMCC) window should resemble the following example, which shows the monitoring of records in the Demodata sample database.
The following topics provide more information on how to use AMCC:
For details, click any item in the list, or click an area of the following example:
Menus, Toolbars, and Tabs
To learn about AMCC menu and toolbar options, click a menu name, icon, or tab in the following images for the main window and the tabs that display query results and log information.
Menu or Toolbar
Command
Description
File
Query
or
Opens Query Builder to search for records. A query may be based on user, date, action, and other criteria. For details, see Querying Audit Records.
Advanced Query
Opens Advanced Query Builder to create more complex queries that cannot be built using Query Builder. For details, see Building an Advanced Query.
Opens a window for managing archived audit records. For details, see Managing Archives.
View
Preferences
Opens a window for setting the appearance of tabs and the number of archives listed. For details, see Display Preferences.
Server
Add
Creates a connection from an AMCC client to an AuditMaster server. For details, see Accessing AuditMaster.
Remove
Removes an AuditMaster server connection. The server continues to capture new audit records, but the client cannot currently access them, although it still can query and display records already in its current view and archive files.
Update Current View File
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Refreshes the current view file from the audit log so that queries display the most up-to-date audit records.
Change Password
Changes the password for the user currently logged into an AuditMaster server. For details, see Changing Your User Password.
Admin
Available only to administrative logins
View Status Log
Displays the status log of AuditMaster activity.
Server Settings
Maintains paths and other system settings for an AuditMaster server.
User Maintenance
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Allows you to add or remove AuditMaster users.
Manage Alerts
Builds an alert based on a query (e.g., a certain user has made a change or a check is drawn for more than $10,000). A tripped alert flags the monitored record with a bell icon and writes an entry to the Windows Application event log. For details, see Working with Alerts.
Help
Contents
Provides an online version of the user’s guide.
AMCC Log
Open the event log.
Clear AMCC Log
Clear the event log.
About
Displays AuditMaster and Java version information.
Icons with no menu command
Filter
Filter the status log messages displayed by type and date.
Refresh status messages
Updates the list of logged status and error messages in the Status Log tab.
The Audit Servers panel lists instances of Zen servers where AuditMaster is installed. The server names are the names of the machines. Each server name expands to show details. You can right-click icons for various command options. Queries may be run against either the current view or archive files or a combination. Saved queries are listed for reuse. Monitor refers to the AuditMaster feature that captures database activity.
Audit Configurations
An audit configuration is a set of one or more groups of database tables or Btrieve files to be monitored for activity. The Audit Configurations panel has two tabs: One for database tables and one for Btrieve files. For details, see Working with Audit Configurations.
Audit Records Tab
When a query is run against the current view or an archive file, the Audit Records tab shows the query results.
Audit Record Details
Audit records capture both database activity and AuditMaster operations. For database activity, the audit record detail area in the lower part of the AMCC window shows the fields of the data record where activity occurred.
Note Data record detail may be human readable or in hexadecimal, depending on whether the database schema has been imported for AuditMaster to use to display data. For details, see Working with Audit Configurations.
Status Log Tab
The Status Log tab can be displayed by selecting Admin > View Status Log. This log displays AuditMaster activity, rather than activity in the database being monitored.
The icons at upper right enable you to work with the status log entries by filtering them by type and date, exporting log messages as text files, searching for strings, refreshing the tab, and choosing which columns to display in the tab. The columns shown in this example are a few of the ones possible. For more information, see Reviewing Activity in the Status Log.
Display Preferences
You can set the number of items displayed in the Audit Servers tree under Archive Files. You can also set options to save adjustments you make to the display of columns in the Audit Records and the Status Log tabs. To open the Preferences dialog for these settings, select View > Preferences. In the dialog under Table Layout, you can choose which settings to keep from session to session.
and writes an entry to the Windows Application event log. For details, see Working with Alerts.
