HFM Task Audit Logs

Question

Hi All,
HFM Version 9.3.1. When you click on administration>task audit, there are a bunch of tasks which can be auditied. I am trying to pull the last logon information from this and apparently the file is to large to export.
Where are these logs stored? Are they in SQL or on the app server somewhere? Does anyone every clear these logs? Will NOT doing so affect performance in any way.
Thanks,
Greg

Answer 1

Greg,
Logs are stored in the HFM relational database. The table name is <AppName>TaskAudit where <AppName> is the name of the HFM app.
By default, the data in this table is not trimmed and it can grow quite large.
From an overall systems level, I doubt the size of this table is going to negatively impact system performance unless you are trying to work with that table directly. ;)
It is not uncommon for people to make a script (schedule task) that executes a sql query that cleans up the table except for critical pieces of information such as system loads, etc.
The tricky fields in the table are ActivityCode and the time fields. ActivityCode correlates with the activity (i.e. Logon, Consolidation, etc). It is not something that is advertised that I know of; however, I created a list by analyzing the program. The list will follow at the bottom of this post.
The times are a bit tricky as you need to convert them so that they are "human readable". In SQL, I use the follow statement to convert them to a human readable time/date : cast(endtime-2 as smalldatetime)
Hope this helps.
Activity Codes
ActivityID     ActivityName
0     Idle
1     Rules Load
2     Rules Scan
3     Rules Extract
4     Consolidation
5     Chart Logic
6     Translation
7     Custom Logic
8     Allocate
9     Data Load
10     Data Extract
11     Data Extract via HAL
12     Data Entry
13     Data Retrieval
14     Data Clear
15     Data Copy
16     Journal Entry
17     Journal Retrieval
18     Journal Posting
19     Journal Unposting
20     Journal Template Entry
21     Metadata Load
22     Metadata Extract
23     Member List Load
24     Member List Scan
25     Member List Extract
26     Security Load
27     Security Scan
28     Security Extract
29     Logon
30     Logon Failure
31     Logoff
32     External
33     Metadata Scan
34     Data Scan
35     Extended Analytics Export
36     Extended Analytics Schema Delete
37     Transactions Load
38     Transactions Extract
39     Document Attachments
40     Document Detachments
41     Create Transactions
42     Edit Transactions
43     Delete Transactions
44     Post Transactions
45     Unpost Transactions
46     Delete Invalid Records
47     Data Audit Purged
48     Task Audit Purged
49     Post All Transactions
50     Unpost All Transactions
51     Delete All Transactions
52     Unmatch All Transactions
53     Auto Match by ID
54     Auto Match by Account
55     Intercompany Matching Report by ID
56     Intercompany Matching Report by Acct
57     Intercompany Transaction Report
58     Manual Match
59     Unmatch Selected
60     Manage IC Periods
61     Lock/Unlock IC Entities
62     Manage IC Reason Codes
63     Null