Users Guide

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:
• Create jobs to control status of device power and device LEDs. See Using jobs for device control.
• Discover and manage devices. See Discovering devices.
• Schedule jobs to generate device inventory. See Managing device inventory.
• Create and receive alerts about device warranty. See Managing device warranty.
• Create reports about device components. See Reporting device performance.
• Manage MIBs. See Managing MIBs.
NOTE: An audit log is recorded when:
• A group is assigned or access permission is changed.
• User role is modified.
By clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Monitor > Audit Logs, 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.
1. From the OpenManage Enterprise menu, under Monitor, select Audit Logs.
a) 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. To remove the filter, click Advanced Filters.
5. To export the console logs as a .zip file, click Export > Export Console Logs.
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.
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