topic Re: Question regarding management console in QlikView

Question regarding management console

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hello all,

Is there a way to see who created a task on the Qlikview Management Console?

Are the some kind of log files that contain this kind of information?

Thanks in advance

Best regards

Re: Question regarding management console

Thu, 08 Oct 2015 13:52:38 GMT

You may get on QVPR (qlikview publisher repository) folder.

Re: Question regarding management console

Thu, 08 Oct 2015 13:58:54 GMT

If you enable Audit logging on Management service, this can be tracked.

Re: Question regarding management console

Peter_Cammaert — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:01:25 GMT

Sure there is. You may have been looking in the wrong place.

The QDS has no Auditing facility. But it's the QMC/QMS-combo that is the actual user interface to tasks and schedules and that combo does have an Auditing feature that can be Enabled/Disabled as you like.

Goto QMC->System->Setup->QlikView Management Service (the top of the service tree)->Auditing and check the "Enabled" checkbox. A log will be created in the directory mentioned immediately below the checkbox.

Best,

Peter

Re: Question regarding management console

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:06:18 GMT

Hi Nemanja,

See QVPR (QlikView Publisher Repository) folder.

QVPR(QlikView Publisher Repository) it stores settings managed by the QlikView Management Console in XML.

Re: Question regarding management console

Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:06:57 GMT

Actually the Enabled checkbox in QMC is readonly. You need to modify it in the config settings for Management Service and then restart the service.

These are the settings to modify:

Re: Question regarding management console

Peter_Cammaert — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:45:03 GMT

Thanks Magnus for pointing this out.

But it seems that even then you may not get any QMS audit log files. You'll have to enable Audit logging in the QlikView Server settings as well, as Bill explains in Re: Auditing Checkbox does not let be enable

While on average the QMC makes configuring QVS very simple, a few of these configuration settings definitely belong to the a-bit-more-un-simple-department

Peter

Re: Question regarding management console

Levi_Turner — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:05:51 GMT

Others have chimed in with a handful of right answers to a point. We have the QVPR and QMC Auditing. QMC auditing needs to be enabled like magnuslovsten explained above and is the only ultimate answer to see who created a task and that's the correct answer. To elaborate it in more detail, the QVPR merely stores who last modified a task. Use the XMLDBViewer included in the QlikView Power Tools to inspect it and it'll look like this:

But this doesn't answer who created the task, merely who last modified it and when the modification was done.

Once the EnableAuditLogging change to QVManagementService.exe.config is done, you'll get folders populated within C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\ManagementService\AuditLog (by default) that correspond to the XMLs that the QVPR uses. So for instance, if you create a task, it'll log the change in C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\ManagementService\AuditLog\DocumentTask

Those logs are a bit annoying to decipher, so you may want to use Excel to go through them.

Re: Question regarding management console

Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:39:45 GMT

This will have to do

Thank you very much

Re: Question regarding management console

Fri, 09 Oct 2015 07:09:10 GMT

For once I disagree with Bill on this. QMC audit logging and QVS audit logging are different things and work indendent. They audit different things. And regarding getting info on who changed what tasks the QMC Audit log is enough.

Great to hear your input though and will bring it forward as we continue improving QlikView.