Activating action usage report in RAR

Hi,
I want to configure the Action usage report in AC 5.3 RAR. However after reading all of the configuration documents I am still not clear on the steps to achieve this.
Specifically how is the transaction data gathered?
Is there a job that runs on the SAP system?
I have looked at the options for configuration under alerts generate jobs, however I do not want to gather data on transaction related to a specific risk, I want to gather data on all transactions used. I cannot see an option to set this up.
I want to use this report for remediation purposes.
Thanks,

Hi,
Action usage job runs on RAR (Java front-end) side and basically, collects the data from SAP system and populates the RAR database.
Alert is only supposed to work at SoD risk level or critical action risk level. The reason why SAP doesn't allow you to generate alert for all the transactions as that would be too much of data.
Alpesh

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