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Change Auditor for Fluid File System 7.3 - User Guide

Introduction

Change Auditor provides built-in searches that can be run to retrieve FluidFS activity captured by deployed agents enabling you to retrieve valuable information from a variety of perspectives.

You to create custom search definitions to search for file and/or folder changes to a specific volume. You will use the Search Properties tabs across the bottom of the Searches page to define new custom searches.

 

FluidFS built-in searches

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To see a complete list of built-in reports, see the Change Auditor Built-in Reports Reference Guide.

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Click on the Searches tab.
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Select Shared | Built-in | All Events to display the list of search definitions stored in the selected folder.
NOTE: To modify a built-in search, see the Change Auditor User Guide.

Create custom FluidFS searches

The following scenarios explain how to use the What tab to create custom FluidFS searches.

Selecting the Private folder will create a search that only you can run and view, whereas selecting the Shared folder will create a search which can be run and viewed by all Change Auditor users.
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Click New.
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Open the What tab, expand Add and select Subsystem | File System.
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By default, All Actions is selected meaning that all of the actions associated with the file system path will be included in the search.
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Click OK to save your selection and close the dialog.
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Selecting the Private folder will create a search that only you can run and view, whereas selecting the Shared folder will create a search which can be run and viewed by all users.
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Click New.
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Open the What tab, expand Add and select Subsystem | File System.
This Object - select to search only the selected object.
This Object and Child Objects Only - select to search the selected object and its direct child objects.
This Object and All Child Objects - select to include the selected object and all subordinate objects (in all levels)
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In the Path field, enter or use the browse button to select the FluidFS path to be searched.
NOTE: If the scope of your search is This Object, you can use the * wildcard character to specify the FluidFS path. That is, use an asterisk (*) to substitute zero or more characters.

When using the This Object option, be sure to select the appropriate Type option to define the type of path to be searched: Files or Folders.

By default, All Actions is selected meaning that all of the actions associated with the path will be included in the search.
When the scope includes child objects, All Types are selected by default meaning that all types of paths will be searched. If you selected the This Object scope option, Files is selected by default, which can be changed to Folders. Only one type can be selected.
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Click OK to save your selection and close the dialog.
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Click Run to save and run the search. Click Save to save the search definition without running it.
Selecting the Private folder will create a search that only you can run and view, whereas selecting the Shared folder will create a search which can be run and viewed by all Change Auditor users.
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Click New.
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Open the What tab, click Add (or expand the Add tool bar button and select Event Class).
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On the Add Facilities or Event Classes dialog, enter FluidFS in the filter field under the Facility heading to display all of the FluidFS events.
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From this list, select one or more events and use the Add | Add This Event option to add the selected events to the list box at the bottom of the dialog. Click OK to save your selection and close the dialog.
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Click Run to save and run the search. Click Save to save the search definition without running it.

 

FluidFS Events

The following events can be selected for auditing from the Events tab on the FluidFS Auditing wizard. For details and the available built-in searches see the Change Auditor for Fluid File System Event Reference Guide.

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