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MCT-MC
4.3
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7.5 Audit Trail
The audit trail viewer is accessed by selecting “Audit” from the Security menu. It displays all user actions that
affected the system for any given day. The MC can store daily audit files for a period of a year or longer (time
based on storage usage for data history). Each time a user take an action that affect the operation of the
system (changing a set point, start/stop data logging, changes an alarm set point, etc.), the action is written to
a file. Audit trail file names are listed as month_day_year. The “Open” file button will display a dialog box
where the user can select any audit file to view.
NOTE: If no actions occurred on a given day, an audit file will not be created for that day.
Each action recorded to the file includes the date/time it occurred as well as the user (if logged in) that made
the change. If no user is logged in, the user will be listed as “Device Manager”, which is the default user account
for the MC system.
The send email icon
allows the user to send a copy of the currently opened audit trail file to any user
configured in the MC. When the email icon is pressed, an “Add Recipients” window will be displayed where the
user can select recipients for the file from any of the email addresses configured under the MC email settings.
For information on how to add email recipients to the MC, see the section 9.9, Email.