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User Guide for Cisco Secure ACS for Windows Server
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Working with Logging and Reports
Cisco Secure Access Control Server (Cisco Secure ACS) for Windows Server ve
rsion 3.1 produces a variety of logs and provides a way to view most of these logs
in the Cisco Secure ACS HTML interface as HTML reports. This chapter contains
the following topics about logging:
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Logging Formats, page 9-1
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Special Logging Attributes, page 9-2
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Update Packets In Accounting Logs, page 9-4
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About Cisco Secure ACS Logs and Reports, page 9-4
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Working with CSV Logs, page 9-13
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Working with ODBC Logs, page 9-19
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Remote Logging, page 9-23
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Service Logs, page 9-28
Logging Formats
Cisco Secure ACS logs a variety of user and system activities. Depending on the
log, and how you have configured Cisco Secure ACS, logs can be recorded in one
of two formats:
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Comma-separated value (CSV) files—The CSV format records data in
columns separated by commas. This format is easily imported into a variety
of third-party applications, such as Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access.
After data from a CSV file is imported into such applications, you can prepare