View Admin Audit Trails page
Overview
The Admin Audit Trails page gives you an insight into all administrator activities performed on Phoenix Management Console. This page lists each activity and provides the corresponding details over a specified duration. The page also provides various filters to list the activities based on your selection. For example, you can use the filters to list the activities specific to a resource, entity, action, organization, administrator, and time. You can also use the Admin Audit Trails page to generate a custom report based on the populated activities. For more information about the Audit Trails Report, see Admin Audit Trails Report.
Access path
- Log in to the Phoenix Management Console.
- The Admin Audit Trails page opens.
Field Description
The following table describes the fields on the Admin Audit Trails page.
Field | Description |
Administrator |
The name of the administrator who performed the action. |
Action |
The action performed by the administrator. For example, Create, Update, Delete, Login, Backup Now, and so on. |
Entity Type |
The type of the Phoenix entity on which the administrator performed the action. For example, Admin Group, Backup Set, Billing Cost Code, Admin, and so on. |
Entity Name |
The name of the Phoenix entity on which the administrator performed the action. |
Resource Type |
The type of the Phoenix resource associated with the entity. For example, Files, MS-SQL, CloudCache, VMware, and so on. If an admin creates the My_config_rule entity of type VM Auto Config Rule, the resource type of the entity is VMware. |
Organization |
The name of the organization to which the entity is associated with. The actions performed on the global dashboard, such as SSO settings, cost allocation, and so on, are accounted under All Organizations. |
Time |
The timestamp of the action performed by the administrator. |
Admin Audit Trail filters
Phoenix provides a wide array of filters to view details of the administrator activities on Phoenix Management Console. The filters can be applied concurrently along with the Duration filter to fetch the Audit Trail Report on the Admin Audit Trail page. For more information about the Audit Trails Report, see Admin Audit Trails Report.
The following screenshot illustrates a sample selection for a VMware resource.
Phoenix provides the following audit trail filters to view administrators' activities.
Filter | Description |
On Resource Type |
The type of Phoenix resources. The resource list includes File Server, MS-SQL, NAS, VMware, Hyper-V, CloudCache, Disaster Recovery, Configuration, Billing, Device Config, and Snowball Edge, Oracle, Alert. |
Activity
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In Organization |
The organization to which the entity belongs to. You can select All Organizations or your specific organization with which the entity is associated with. |
Triggered By |
The administrator who performed the activity. You can select the specific administrator who performed the activity. |
Duration |
The window in which the activities were performed. The values include Last 24 hours, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, Last 3 months, Last 6 months, Last 1 year, Last 5 years, and Custom. If you select Custom from the list, Phoenix displays the From and To Calendar lists. Select the dates from these lists to specify the duration in which the activities were performed. |
Use the Reset and Apply buttons to clear and apply the applied filters on the Filters box.
Actions
The following table lists the actions on the Admin Audit Trails page.