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["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

We need to flesh out exactly what the audit requirements are - doesn’t mean 
we implement everything yet but I know they are considered very important 
for a lot of sites.

Gary

--On 28 May 2008 06:02 -0400 Chris Hyzer 
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 wrote:

> > What happens when things are deleted? An audit log needs to stand by
> > itself
> > as far as possible. I think Tom was effectively saying we should,
> > between
> > any set of changes, be able to do a diff - as with CVS / Subversion.
> > Using
> > an audit log you should be able to reconstruct what a group (including
> > membership and privileges, looked like at a point in time - in case of
> > a
> > dispute can you show, retrospectively, whether a student had access to
> > online course materials when they were supposed to hand in some work?
>
> There is no foreign key into the audit table, so if there is a delete,
> that id will go into the change log and there will be no corresponding
> records in the data table.  So when a process looks for it, sees it
> doesn't exist, it acts accordingly.  Yes, what you describe is fine, I
> just think that sounds like a manual process, not automated.  So an
> administrator can filter the audit logs, read the descriptions, and
> decide what the history is.  So it doesn't need to be machine readable
> and 100% complete... right?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris



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GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing