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Alfresco for Administrators

By : Vandana Pal
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Alfresco for Administrators

By: Vandana Pal

Overview of this book

Alfresco is an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system for Windows and Linux-like operating systems. The year-on-year growth of business connections, contacts, and communications is expanding enterprise boundaries more than ever before. Alfresco enables organizations to collaborate more effectively, improve business process efficiency, and ensure information governance. The basic purpose of Alfresco is to help users to capture and manage information in a better way. It helps you capture, organize, and share binary files. This book will cover the basic building blocks of an Alfresco system, how the components fit together, and the information required to build a system architecture. This book will also focus on security aspects of Alfresco. such as authentication, troubleshooting, managing permissions, and so on. It will also focus on managing content and storage, indexing and searches, setting up clustering for high availability, and so forth.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Alfresco for Administrators
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Fetching audit records from Alfresco


In Alfresco all the actions performed by any user are audited and stored in the Alfresco database. These records can be fetched any time by the admin user. There is web-script exposed which can be used to fetch and delete the audit entries from Alfresco. This can be only performed by admin users. We learned about audit configuration in Chapter 3, Alfresco Configuration.

To fetch the audit records from Alfresco there is a get service exposed by Alfresco, which can be found at the following URL.

  • /alfresco/service/api/audit/query/{application}?fromId={fromId}&toId={toId}&fromTime={fromTime}&toTime={toTime}&user={user}&forward={forward}&limit={limit}&verbose={verbose}

The parameters involved are explained as follows:

  • application: Audits are divided into different applications. By default everything is under alfresco-access. So pass the application name as alfresco-access.

  • fromId&toId: If you know the audit ID number you can...