Question regarding management console

[#1]

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

[#2]

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

[#3]

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

[Peter_Cammaert]

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

[Anonymous]

Hi Nemanja,

See QVPR (QlikView Publisher Repository) folder.

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

[#6]

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:

    <!-- Enable logging of changes to QVPR. Requires restart of QMS after change. -->

    <add key="EnableAuditLogging" value="false"/>

    <!-- Folder where audit logs should be stored. Default is ApplicationDataFolder\AuditLog - -->

    <add key="AuditLogFolder" value=""/>

    <!-- The maximum number of days to keep audit logs -->

    <add key="AuditLogKeepMaxDays" value="30"/>

[Peter_Cammaert]

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

[Levi_Turner · Accepted solution]

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.

[#9]

This will have to do

Thank you very much

[#10]

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.