Reading the Audit Analysis Report

In this section, we describe how to read the audit analysis report produced from the procedure Displaying the Audit Analysis Report.

The Main Audit Analysis Report

The audit analysis report is divided into four main sections:

• Introductory information
• Audit report
• Statistical analysis
• Contents

Introductory Information

At the top of the report, you find the selection options applied to the audit file to generate this report (for example, From date/time, To date/time, User, and Audit classes).

Audit report

The audit report follows the introductory data and contains the following information for each audit event found in audit file that applies to your selection criteria (depending on your display configuration):

• Date
• Time
• Instance
• Category (dialog or batch)
• Message number
• Audit class code (For example, a dialog logon attempt belongs to class number 002.)
• User
• Transaction code
• Terminal number

Summary information is included at the end of the list (for example, the number of records read, the number of records selected, and audit file names).

Statistical analysis

If you included With statistical analysis in the display options, then the following blocks of information are included after the audit data:

• Instance statistics (when analyzing all instances)
• Client statistics
• Report statistics
• Transaction statistics
• User statistics
• Message statistics

Contents

A list of contents is provided at the end of the report.

The Detailed Audit Analysis Report

To view details about a specific message, place the cursor on the entry and choose Edit à Details. A detailed description of the message including information such as the task name, class, message documentation, and the technical details of the audit record appears.