Reference Guide

HPMA Audit Message Reference
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HP Medical Archive
sumption of the available storage on the server hosting the AMS
service. Based on the requirements of your enterprise, either archive
the older compressed files to some other media (such as DVD-R, or
into the grid itself), or they will be automatically deleted.
Audit Log File Access
Access to the text log file at the AMS requires you to have an account
and password to access the audit share on the server hosting the AMS
service.
The active log file and any compressed log files are available through
your configured audit share directory.
The active audit log file is named:
audit.log
Archived log files are named using the convention:
YYYY-MM-DD.txt.gz
where the file name includes a date and time stamp (in UTC) when the
file was archived.
To access an archived audit log file:
1. Make a local copy of the file to work with.
2. Decompress the file. This process requires a decompression utility.
We recommend “7-Zip”, which is a free download from:
http://www.7-zip.org/
Access log files as simple text files.
The next chapter provides details of the file’s internal structure and the
syntax of audit messages.