Viewing and Downloading Logs

You can view the activities within your environment under Transaction logs, Action logs, and Audit logs.

Viewing the Transaction Log

You can view the updates to assets on your webMethods.io MFT. By default, the search list is populated with the file transaction details of the current day. You can further filter the file transaction log based on criteria such as date and time, trigger source, status of the file transfer, search text, transaction ID, and file name.

Note: When an asset is saved without making any changes to it, an entry stating that no changes are made is added to the audit log.

To view a file transaction log

  1. On the navigation pane, select Logs > Transaction log.
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  2. On the Transaction log page, you can filter the log based on the following criteria:

    Field Description
    Date and time Select a time period from the list or specify a custom date range with a time range in the HH:MM:SS (12-hour clock) format, and click Ok.
    Trigger source Select a source that triggered the file transaction from the following options:
    User

    This option filters the transactions initiated by a user or group of users.

    You can specify the following additional filters:
    • Partner: Select either All partners or Specific partner, type the partner name in the box, and click Ok.
    • User: Select either All users or Specific user, type the user name in the box, and click Ok.
    • Operation: Select All, Upload, or Download based on transaction type.
    • Protocols: Select one or more transmission protocols. You can select All, All secure protocols (FTPS, SFTP, HTTPS, SCP, and WebDAVs), Non-secure protocols (HTTP, FTP, and WebDAV), or individual protocols.
    Action You can specify the following additional filters:
    • Source location: Use this option to query the files which match the transactions from a particular source.

      You can either specify the partial or complete source location, which can include protocols as well.

      The source location will have the following format: <protocol>://<source location>/<filename>.

      Example, for FTP protocol, the source location can be, FTP://dcmft01.eur.ad.sag:2121/var/www/ftp/ftpuser/test1/ATG_10.0.xml.

    • Destination location: Use this option to query the files which match the transactions from a particular destination.

      You can either specify the partial or complete destination location, which can include protocols as well.

      The destination location will have the following format: <protocol>://<destination location>/<filename>.

      Example, for SFTP protocol, the destination location can be, SFTP://dcmft01.eur.ad.sag:2121/var/www/sftp/sftpuser/test1/ATG_10.0.xml.
    Status Select an option to display All, Success, or Failed transactions from the list.
    Search text Type the text to search for the Comment and Activities related information.
    Transaction ID Type the transaction ID of the file transfer.
    File name Type either the partial or complete name of the file based on which you want to search for transactions that match the specified file name. Select the Match complete file name option if you want to search for a file with the exact name that you specify.

    Match complete file name performs the query faster when you have large volumes of data that can utilize the underlying database optimization.

  3. Click Reset to reset the values and Apply for the changes to take effect.

    In the Comment text box, you can modify the message that appears for the result of the file transaction.

    In the results list, click the record you want to view the details for.

    You can view the following information in the Transaction details section:

    • Transaction ID: Transaction ID for the file transfer.
    • Transfer date and time: Start time of the transfer.
    • File size: Size of the file.
    • Transfer status: Whether the transfer was successful or unsuccessful.
    • Source file: Source file name.
    • Source location: The location where the file is transferred from.
    • Trigger source: Source of the file transaction. Could be a User or an Action.
    • Destination file: Destination file name.
    • Destination location: The location where the file is transferred to.
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    You can view the following information in the Activities section:

    • Timestamp: Date and time of the associated activity.
    • Transaction type: Whether the file transaction is an upload or download operation.
    • Status: Whether the transfer is successful or unsuccessful.
    • Action name: Name of the action in webMethods.io MFT.
    • Result: The message for the outcome of the file transaction.
    • Details: The details for the outcome of the file transaction.

Viewing the Action Log

To view an action log

  1. On the navigation pane, select Logs > Action log.
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  2. On the Action log page, you can filter the log based on the following criteria:

    Field Description
    Date and time Select a time period from the list or specify a custom date range with a time range in the HH:MM:SS (12-hour clock) format, and click Ok.
    Action type Select one of the following options:
    • All: Select this option to display all the post-processing and scheduled actions.
    • Post-Processing action: Select this option, and select either All actions or Specific action and type the name of a particular post-processing action.
    • Scheduled action: Select this option, and select either All actions or Specific action and type the name of a particular scheduled action.
    Status Select an option to display All, Success, or Failed action executions from the list.
    File name Type either the partial or complete name of the file based on which you want to search for actions that match the specified file name. Select the Match complete file name option if you want to search for a file with the exact name that you specify. Match complete file name performs the query faster when you have large volumes of data that can utilize the underlying database optimization.

  3. Click Reset to reset values and Apply for the changes to take effect.

    The activity logs retrieved appear in the results list.

  4. If you want to view the details of a particular log, click the log ID.

    You can view the following information in the Action details section:

    • Timestamp: Date and time of the associated activity.
    • Task type: The action type, post-processing or scheduled action.
    • Status: Whether the action was successful or unsuccessful.
    • Message: Actual activity executed during the file transaction.
    • Details: Full list of the parameters and their values that were applied to the file transaction activity.
    • File seq no.: The sequence in which the files are processed.
      All files in an action are assigned a File Seq No. starting from zero when webMethods.io MFT picks them up sequentially for the first task. Even after parallel processing starts, for all subsequent tasks, webMethods.io MFT maintains the initial sequence number on each thread until the action execution is complete.

Viewing the Audit Log

To view an audit log

  1. On the navigation pane, select Logs > Audit log
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  2. On the Audit log page, you can filter the log based on the following criteria:

    Field Description
    Date and time Select a time period from the list or specify a custom date range with a time range in the HH:MM:SS (12-hour clock) format, and click Ok.
    Operation Select All, Created, Updated, or Deleted to display all, created, updated, or deleted assets respectively from the list.
    Asset Select All or one of the asset from the list.
    Asset name Type the name of the asset for the asset selected under Asset type.
    Asset ID Type the ID of the asset for the asset selected under Asset type.
    Search text Type the text based on which you want to search for assets.
    User Select either All users or Specific user, type the user name in the box, and click Ok.

  3. Click Reset to reset values and Apply for the changes to take effect.

    In the results list, click the record you want to view the details for.

    You can view the following information in the Summary section:

    • ID: ID of the asset that is updated.
    • Asset: Type of the asset that is updated. For example, scheduled action, user, virtual folder, and so on.
    • Timestamp: Date and time when the asset is updated.
    • User: System user who updated the asset. For example, administrator.
    • Action: Type of asset modification. For example, created, updated, deleted, and so on.
    • Comment: Brief information about the update to the asset.
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    You can view the following information in the Details section:

    • Field: Property of the asset that is updated.
    • New value: New value of the property.
    • Old value: Old value of the property.

Downloading Log Data

You might want to share audit data, file transaction data, scheduled action details or post-processing action details with management personnel, business analysts or other members of your organization. webMethods.io MFT enables you to export any log data available on webMethods.io MFT to a CSV file and save it.

By default, you can download the data for 1000 logs in a single download action. You can also provide a filter criteria to download the logs.

To download log data to a CSV file

  1. In the navigation pane, select the required log.
    For example, Action Log.
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  2. On the log page, select the required filter criteria.

  3. Do one of the following to export and download the logs:

    • Click to export all available logs to a single CSV file.
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    • If you only want to download the details of a particular activity log, click the log ID and click .

      • Note: Only Action Log lets you to download the details of a particular activity log.

    4. webMethods.io MFT downloads all the logs with the file name as follows:

    Log details format for.. File name
    Any log LogPageName_YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.csv. For example, TransactionLog_20191006123351.csv, AuditLog_202002201121.csv.
    Action activity log ActivityLogPageNameDetails_YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.csv. For example, ActionLogDetails_20200123091101.csv.