5.2 Setting Up Audit Server

The Audit Server helps process backend configurations and the web interface in ACDI.

To get to the Audit Server settings, on the homepage go to Administration > Audit Server.

The Audit Server consists of the following components:

5.2.1 Back-end Properties

This component consists of general parameters and settings for the Audit Server.

Table 5-2 Parameters in Back-end Properties

Parameters	Description
Server ID	The ID of the ACDI application
License	Specify the license number.
OpenSearch endpoint name	The name of the endpoint for open search
Old Reporting index name	The name of the index where old report templates are stored
New Reporting index name	The name of the index where report templates are stored
Scheduler data folder	The path of folder used for the post processing cache
AuditExport data access protocol	The FQDN of ACDI
AuditExport data	The path to store the export data if you change the FQDN value.
Logo	The logo of your company and export here
Maximum email file size	The maximum size of a file that you can share over emails.
Opensearch request size	Size of objects to get per one request to Opensearch NOTE:The default value is 100000. You can extend it by changing in the appropriate setting in OpenSearch.
ACDI Node name	Used for Analytics NOTE:Do not change the default values of these settings.

External Configs: This settings panel contains paths to different ACDI services which are by default located in the same machine. These settings must be changed to move some of those services to different directories.
ACDI service lists: This page contains a list of different services provided by ACDI.

Table 5-3 Service names in ACDI

Service name	Description
audit-proxy.service	The proxy service helps to handle data in ACDI.
audit-report-edir@.service	The service that makes a snapshot from OpenText eDirectory.
audit-export.service	The service that processes reports and creates files.
audit-server.service	The service responsible for the ACDI web interface.
opensearch.service	The service that controls analytics and monitoring
osd.service	OpenSearch Dashboards service.

5.2.2 Day Time Format

Using this component, you can define dates in the following formats:

A browser-defined format.
A time zone for the front-end web interface which you can see in Dashboards, Time Machine, and other ACDI service tabs where dates with time zones are used.

5.2.3 Indices Settings

This components lists the LDAP connections that are available in LDAP Connections under Core Engine and the settings of different indices, such as report, audit and add additional attributes if requested.

Settings	Description
Name	The name of the index setting.
Name of LDAP connection	The name of the AuditProxy LDAP connection corresponds to the current Index.
Directory Type	The type of the directory the connection belongs to.
Snapshot related settings for Report
The key attribute	The attribute used for linking objects with audit data.
Date-time fields correction: Date field	The list of date-time fields settings that you can display on the dashboard and Time Machine. Specify names and time zones.
Service attributes	The list of additional attributes. You can see these in History Browser.

NOTE:Event related settings for Audit and Snapshot related settings for Report are similar.

Perform the following steps to verify the Service attributes for an index source:

On the home page, go to History browser >Time Machine.
Select the required index from Select index source.
Select an object in the object pane.
Click options icon and select Show service attribute.

5.2.4 URLs and Roles

This component contains a list of ACDI endpoints. You can approve or deny access to endpoints for different roles.

5.2.5 Reports Menu

This component contains a list of customizable sub-menus in Reports.

Perform the following steps to customize the Report menu:

On the home page, go to Administration > Audit Server > Reports Menu.
Click + to add a new menu item.
Specify a tag in Report Tag.
Specify a title in Title used in Menu.
Click show.
Save changes and refresh.

5.2.6 Dashboards Menu

It contains list of sub-menus you have in Dashboards and you can customize it.

Perform the following steps to customize the Dashboards menu:

On the home page, go to Administration > Audit Server > Dashboards Menu.
Click + to add a new menu item.
Specify a tag in Report Tag.
Specify a title in Title used in Menu.
Click show.
Save changes and refresh.

5.2.7 Home Page Cards

It contains the lists of cards available on the ACDI home page such as Dashboards, Reports, and Time Machine. You can update the existing cards or create a new one. Furthermore, the component provides options for CSS styling, uploading images, background color, text, and a redirect URL route from a list.

5.2.8 Misc Audit Server settings

Using this setting, you can adjust the width of the ACDI menu on the left.