The Man Man Audit Tool will assist you with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. It is the first product to comprehensively allow you to monitor who is updating any file in the Manman system. This includes General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable transactions; Purchase Orders and Sales Orders changes, Customer and Part Master file updates, and so on. The Man Man Audit Tool uses Image Logging to gather the date, time, user name, before and after values of any data in Man Man you wish to audit. A new list command allows your users to inquire by part number, order number, or other keys to view who has made updates to Manman.
Frequently Asked Questions regarding Image Logging
Will Image Logging slow down our system? Benchmarks have measured that Image logging requires very little overhead. A commonly quoted statistic is 3% more cpu time. Its important to realize that a vast majority of the data base interaction in Man Man is retrieving records, and only a small amount of data base activity is related to adding, changing and deleting records.
Isn't Image Logging difficult to administer? You can begin Image Logging simply by entering 4 MPE commands. You need to add a :log stop and a :log start to your database capacity change process, and that's all. Because the Man Man Audit Tool is designed for auditing purposes, and not rollforward/rollbackward recovery, the administration is more simple.
What types of changes are required to Man Man? Absolutely no changes whatsoever. You will 'enable your database(s) for logging', and the HP operating system does the rest. The Man Man Audit Tool Utility program manages the Image log files for you.
The Man Man Audit Tool takes over where Image Logging leaves off
Image logging captures a great deal of information regarding your data base activity. However, the log files require a substantial amount of selection and manipulation. It is also important to retrieve additional information from the data base that is not stored in the image log file that is relevant in a Man Man environment.
For example, if a user changes a sales order scheduled ship date, an image log file will capture the sales order number, the old scheduled ship date, and the new scheduled ship date. But because the sales order line number is not in the image log file, then the audit trail record is of dubious value. Using the record pointers contained in the image log file, the Man Man Audit Tool retrieves the sales order line number and stores it with the data.
The Man Man Audit Tool knows which integers are 'dates' and formats them before displaying them to the user. Field descriptions are listed in addition to image field names.
The Man Man Audit Tool also simplifies the process by helping you manage your log files. The Audit Tool Utility automatically switches to a new Image log file, closes the current Image log file, processes the log and moves all the relevant data to the Audit Tool Image database. It can also purge the image log file so that space required on your system is minimal.
