Viewing and Downloading Logs
View the activities within your environment under Transaction logs, Action logs, and Audit logs.
View the activities within your environment under Transaction logs, Action logs, and Audit logs.
View the updates to assets in IBM webMethods Managed File Transfer. 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.
To view a file transaction log
Go to Logs > Transaction log and filter the log based on the following criteria:
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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. Specify the following additional filters:
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Action | Specify the following additional filters:
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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 |
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Click Apply for the changes to take effect and Reset to reset the values.
In the Comment text box, modify the message that appears for the result of the file transaction. In the results list, click the record to view the details.
View the following information in the Transaction details section:
View the following information in the Activities section:
To view an action log
Go Logs > Action log and filter the log based on the following criteria:
Field | Description |
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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:
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Status | Select an option to view All, Success, or Failed action executions from the list. |
File name |
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Click Apply for the changes to take effect and click Reset to clear the values.
The activity logs that are retrieved appear in the results list.
To view the details of a specific log, click the log ID.
View the following information in the Action details section:
You can trigger a post-processing action when you upload, download or delete a file in IBM webMethods Managed File Transfer. However, post-processing actions can sometimes fail due to situations such as network errors.
To rerun a failed post-processing action:
Click the Notifications icon. The notifications list provides you with the previous seven days of failed post-processing actions. IBM webMethods Managed File Transfer only supports rerun of the last seven days of failed post-processing actions.
Click on your failed post-processing action in the notifications list.
If your action is not listed, go to Logs > Action log, and apply the following filters:
Checkbox selection is enabled only if the above filters are applied. Default action log listing does not provide you with the rerun option.
Select your Post-processing action, and click Re-run. You can select multiple post-processing actions for rerun, when the above filter is applied. To know the status of your rerun, click Apply again on the Action log filter, after allowing the action the stipulated amount of time for a rerun.
Re-run timestamp provides you with the latest instance of a given post-processing action’s re-run. If the rerun succeeds, the post-processing action does not list anymore under the Failed status filter, or under the Notifications list. You need to clear the filters to view a successful rerun.
IBM webMethods Managed File Transfer only supports rerun of the last seven days of failed post-processing actions.
Rerun of post processing actions is not allowed for successful actions, first-time actions, and after rerun.
The event execution starts from the first action. For example, if an action acts on a file that is uploaded, the file needs to be present in the location.
Everytime you rerun a failed action, a new Reexecuting entry is added in the activity log. Click Apply again on the Action log filter, to view the latest status of the activity log.
To view an audit log
Go to Logs > Audit log, and filter the log based on the following criteria:
Field | Description |
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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 selected for Asset type. |
Asset ID | Type the ID of the asset selected for Asset type. |
Search text | Type any text to search for assets. |
User | Select either All users or Specific user, type the user name in the box, and click Ok. |
Click Apply for the changes to take effect and click Reset to clear the values.
In the results list, click the record to view the details. 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.
View the following information in the Summary section:
View the following information in the Details section:
Share audit data, file transaction data, scheduled action details, or post-processing action details with management personnel, business analysts or other members of the organization. Export any log data available on IBM webMethods Managed File Transfer to a CSV file.
After you apply a filter criteria to download the logs, you can download a maximum of 1000 logs at once.
To download log data to a CSV file
Go to Logs and select the required log.
For example, Action Log.
Select the required filter criteria and select one of the following to export and download the logs:
IBM webMethods Managed File Transfer downloads all the logs with the file name as follows:
Log details format | File name |
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Any log | LogPageName_YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.csv. For example, TransactionLog_20191006123351.csv, AuditLog_202002201121.csv. |
Action activity log | ActivityLogPageNameDetails_YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.csv. For example, ActionLogDetails_20200123091101.csv. |