Auditing in Business Objects : Activity Universe

Audit Universe:-

Business Objects comes with default Audit universe –“Activity Universe”.In case you are not able to find that universe in to your import universe option than you can search for the universe in the BO installation folder.You can find the Activity Universe (Audit universe) in below path-

\Business Objects Edge31\BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0\Samples\universe\<your Database type> 

Considering you are having Business Objects 3.x version here.

But in order to get this universe work for you. You need to have Audit Database and need to enable Auditing capabilities on BO server.

so to configure audit database for windows follow the below steps-

Configuring the auditing database on Windows:-

To configure the auditing database in Windows, you need to follow the below steps:

1. Open the CCM.

2. Stop the SIA.

3. Click Specify Auditing Data Source.

o You will be prompted to select a database driver.

4. Specify whether you want to connect to the database through ODBC or through one of the native drivers.

5. Click OK.

6. The next step depends upon the connection type you selected:

o If you selected ODBC, the Windows Select Data Source dialog box appears. Select the ODBC data source that you want to use as the auditing database and click OK (or click New to configure a new Data Source Name). Use a System DSN, and not a User DSN or File DSN. By default, the server is configured to run under the System account, which only recognizes System DSNs. When prompted, provide your database credentials and click OK.

o If you selected a native driver, you are prompted for your database Server Name, your Login ID, and your Password. Provide this information and then click OK. Click OK.

7. Start the Server Intelligence Agent. When the CMS starts it will populate the database with the required auditing tables.

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To enable auditing events on servers :-

1. Go to the Servers area of CMC.

2. Click the server that controls the action that you wish to audit.

3. Click Actions > Audit Events. The "Audit Events" options will be displayed.

4. If you are using a temporary file directory other than the default, enter the path to the directory in Auditing Temporary Directory.

5. In Events per file enter the maximum number of audit events you want stored in the temporary file.

o Note: If this number of events is exceeded, then these events will be split over multiple files.

6. Click Auditing is enabled .

7. Under the "Select Events to Audit" section, select the auditing events that you wish to record.

8. Click Save & Close.

here is link to two video that talks about setting up auditing in Business Objects-

here is the second Video for setting up Auditor in Bob-