Comments on: Which Business Objects Auditing Activities or Events Capture BO Universe Name?

By: Brat

Brat — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:27:59 +0000

Guess what – its working now, i had to restart twice thats it.
However can you also please let me know which are the primary keys to link between tables so I can know audit it. information like who logged on when, which univ was accessed, which report was created, which fact table was queried etc

By: Brat

Brat — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:32:52 +0000

Thanks for your response. If you ask me if its correctly configured, can you please let me know what you mean? The ccm cms are all functioning properly for many months now and no problem with business objects reporting. I recently switched on the audit as I wanted to develop some custom admin universe and reports to track usage but the corresponding tables did not get populated. Do you think i need to check anything else to ensure its configured correctly. I have enabled all the auditing on all servers if thats what you mean??
Again, Thanks Julian for your reply.

By: Julian

Julian — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:31:04 +0000

Hi Brat, are you certain that the auditing DB is correctly configured through CCM, and that all servers in the cluster running CMS are properly configured to be able to connect to this auditing database? Your tables and expectations are correct, by the way. I would also recommend a full system restart after confirming my first questions.

By: Brat

Brat — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:18:41 +0000

I am using BO XI R2 I enabled all the Audit check-boxes BUT no data is getting populated. Any ideas? The tables AUDIT_EVENT, AUDIT_DETAIL are all empty. I presume these are the tables where I can find universe usage, report usage, user audit etc.

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:39:04 +0000

Hi Cherry, try using si_kind = 'MetaData.DataConnection'.

By: cherry

cherry — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:03:52 +0000

Julian,

I’m trying to pull all the universes connection names using
SELECT SI_NAME, SI_ID, SI_FILES, SI_DATACONNECTION FROM CI_APPOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = ‘universe’

but using the above query, i’m getting only the universe name instead of universe name and connection name.

Could you please look into this and assist me ASAP

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:12:43 +0000

Access to the database is not necessary if you have access to Designer and the Activity universe. You could simply add the tables to that universe, or create a new one using the same connection. Then you would have all that you need. One of these days I should create a universe that is just based on the auditing data structures and not on any derived tables. I really don’t like those derived tables very much.

By: Alisha

Alisha — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:06:27 +0000

Julian,

I am curently working on getting access to Audit Database. I will query the database as you said once I have my access. Currently in my environment here … we have diff derived tables with custom sql for extracting report name, universe name, object name, viewed report name, edited report name etc … with filters on event type ids and detail type ids for each derived table.

We are using XIR3.1 with audit database on oracle 10.

Let me know if you need any additional information.

Thanks much !!!!!
Alisha.

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:56:49 +0000

Hi Alisha, firstly, I don’t trust the Activity universe much. It is probably accurate, but it is quite inefficient. I suggest adding the real tables to the universe and creating the joins between then the data model is quite easily discerned. If you are looking at “report refresh” (#19) audit events then you should be seeing durations in seconds, yes. Can you query the tables directly to check that the values are not being fudged up by the Activity universe? Also, which version of BO are you using? When I here back from you I will take a closer look at my test environment’s auditing.

By: Alisha

Alisha — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:37:10 +0000

Hi,

I am trying to find the duration of a report execution, meaning how long did the report actually ran on any particular day.

So, related to that, I have a question regarding AuditEvent.Duration object in the Activity universe. Is this the right object that I am looking for? I checked the Auditor Guide and it just says, “Duration, in seconds, of the action that is audited.” Can you throw some light further into understanding how the duration is calculated in this object.

All our universes are set for a 10 min query execution limit, but the values in this objects gives me 5 digit numbers (10894 secs)which is ~ 181.5 mins … which doesnt makes sense to me.

I hope my question is clear. Please let me know if you have any questions for me.

Please help!

Thanks,
Alisha.