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Change Auditor 7.2 - User Guide

Change Auditor Overview Agent Deployment Change Auditor Client Overview Overview Page Searches Search Results and Event Details Custom Searches and Search Properties Enable Alert Notifications Administration Tasks Agent Configurations Coordinator Configuration Purging and Archiving your Change Auditor Database Disable Private Alerts and Reports Generate and Schedule Reports SQL Reporting Services Configuration Change Auditor User Interface Authorization Client Authentication Certificate authentication for client coordinator communication Integrating with On Demand Audit Enable/Disable Event Auditing Account Exclusion Registry Auditing Service Auditing Agent Statistics and Logs Coordinator Statistics and Logs Change Auditor Commands Change Auditor Email Tags

Resize or move columns

Columns can also be resized or moved within a data grid.

To resize a column:
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Place your cursor on the boundary between column headings (your cursor changes to a double-arrow).
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Click and hold the left mouse button dragging the column boundary to the desired size.
To change the order of the columns in the table:
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Use the left mouse button to click the heading to move.
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Drag that column heading to the desired location in the table (arrows indicate where you are placing the selected column).

Add or remove columns

Change Auditor displays a default set of columns. You can however display more data or hide a particular column.

To add or remove columns:
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Click the button to the far left of the column headings.
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The Field Chooser dialog opens which lists all the data (columns) available for display.
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Select the columns to display and clear the columns you do not want displayed.
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NOTE: For each individual search, you can select the data to retrieve and display in the client using the Layout search properties tab. From this tab, you can also define column order, sort criteria and order, groupings and the format to use for displaying the retrieved data.

Group data

You can group data to create a collapsed view that can be expanded to view the detailed information that applies to that group.

To group data:
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Select a column heading (the column heading will pop off the table) and drag that column heading to the space above the table. For example, use the left mouse button to click the Subsystem heading and drag that column heading to the space above the table.
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Optionally, repeat this step to select additional headings to create a hierarchy of groupings.
This will collapse the table and display the groupings that can be expanded to view the detailed information that applies to that group.
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To expand a group and display the individual events listed, click on the + sign to the left of the label.
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When a grouping is in place, you can use the Pie Chart or Bar Graph icons, located at the top of the grid, to redisplay the data.
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NOTE: The pie chart and bar graph displays are only available when a single level grouping has been applied to the data grid.
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In either of these views, use the Data Grid icon to redisplay the data in the grid format.
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To remove a grouping, select the heading and drag it back down into the table area or right-click a group heading (in area above the grid) and select one of the remove commands.

Filter data

Traditional search capabilities provide the first phase of details, but locating individual events typically requires more granular search capabilities and additional steps. Change Auditor provides advanced filtering options to modify the results of a search without changing the original search. With this capability, filtering can be performed on one or more columns of a result, ultimately reducing the need to build the same search multiple times with minor customizations.

To filter data:

Throughout the client, you will see a row of data filtering cells under the headings row in each of the data grids. These cells provide data filtering options which allow you to filter and sort the data displayed.

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Place your cursor in one of these cells, and click Click here to filter data.
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In the selected cell, enter the word or string to use to filter the data displayed. Filtering will take place as you type your entry.
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By default, Change Auditor will use either the ‘starts with’ or ‘contains’ expression to filter the data. However, if you click the search criteria button, you can select a different expression.
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To remove the filtering and return to the original data grid, click the Remove Filter button to the far left of the cells.
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To remove the filtering of an individual cell, click the Remove Filter button to the right of that cell.
To create a custom filter:

When you place your cursor in a data filtering cell, a drop-down arrow displays to the right of this cell. This drop-down displays all the items available for selection, including (Custom), (Blanks), and (NonBlanks). Selecting an item from this list displays entries based on the item selected.

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To create a custom filter, place your cursor in the cell beneath the column to filter. Click the arrow control and select (Custom). The Custom Filter dialog opens.
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Select the appropriate option in the Filter based on <All | Any> of the following conditions.
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Select All if all the criteria entered has to be met in order to be included.
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Select Any if only one of the criteria entered has to be met in order to be included.
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In the field to the right of the column heading, click the arrow control to select the comparison operation to be used (for example, Like, Equals, Contains, and so forth).
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In the field to the right of the comparison operator, enter the pattern (character string or value) to be used to search for a match.
Use the * wildcard character to match any string of zero or more characters. For example, entering LIKE *change* in the Event column, will find events that contain the string ‘change’, such as changed, Change Auditor, etc.
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To add additional criteria, click Add. This allows you to add a row to the custom filter to specify additional criteria for the selected column.
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After you have created the custom filter, click OK to close the dialog and filter the data based on the criteria entered.
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