---
title: System Audit
slug: citsmart-8-en/system-audit
description: Learn how to configure and utilize the audit functionality in your system with this comprehensive document. Discover how to specify the storage directory for audit logs and set backup frequencies. Gain insight into the system's data audit, allowing you to
docTags: 
createdAt: 2022-01-24T17:56:05.000Z
---

This functionality allows <font color="#3b9f0f">**managing the possible risks to the system, when auditing all the executions made in the system in form of logs**</font>.

Some changes were made to the audit (**itsm-audit-0.4.0**), changes that are only at the configuration level.

## Before getting started

- [x] It is necessary to configure the functionality "**Audit**" in your instance.

## Procedure

***Process to configure the Audit***

*Configuration to create a backup of the audits.*

First, it is essential to configure the specific parameters of the functionality.

1. Access the main menu `Parametrization > Audit Parametrization`;
2. Inform in the "**Directory**" field, the folder where all *logs* of
   &#x20;the audits made will be kept;
3. In the "**Frequency in days**" field, it is possible to adjust a backup routine of
   &#x20;the audit logs, by choosing the periodicity of the backup in days.
4. The possibility of determining a specific period (start and end date) for the
   &#x20;generation of system audit logs is made available.

***System data audit***

*It presentes the history of all change, inclusion, and deletion of data in the
&#x20;system.*

1. Access the main menu `System > Audit Trail > System Logs`;
2. The audit logs of every move performed in the program will be presented,
   &#x20;showing the date and time of the updates, the IP address, the executor
   &#x20;name of the update, the name of the table, and the type of operation made in
   &#x20;the system. By clicking on the data button, it will show what was actually updated in the program.
3. The search of a *log* through filters available on the screen is also released.

***System access audit***

*It presentes the history of access to the system (login and logout).*

1. Access the main menu `System >
    Audit Trail > Access Audit`;
2. It will present the users that made login and logout in the system, also
   &#x20;registering the date and hour of each of these activities;
3. There are filters to help in the search for an access.

***System license audit***

*Inform the licenses used to validate the system.*

1. Access the main menu `System >
    Audit Trail > Audit License`;
2. It presents the license data acquired and used to execute the system;
3. It is possible to search for a license and its deadline by the filters
   &#x20;in the main screen.