HP Medical Archive Solution manual Document Structure, References, Using this Guide, Conventions

HPMA Audit Message Reference

References

This document assumes familiarity with many terms related to computer operations and programming, network communications, and operating system file operations. There is wide use of acronyms. To assist you, there is a glossary at the back of this reference (page 65).

Document Structure

HP Medical Archive product guides are generally provided in printed format. They may also be available in Adobe® Acrobat® PDF (Portable Document Format).

You may print copies of the PDF editions for internal use but all copies must be treated as proprietary and confidential; not for general distribution.

Using this Guide

This guide is comprised of three chapters:

“Audit Message Overview”—Provides a brief overview of the audit message system and the design of the text log file.

“File and Message Format”—Defines the format of the audit log file and the format of audit messages, along with details of the common elements found in all audit messages.

“Message Reference”—Provides supporting information for all audit messages issued by the system.

Conventions

This guide adheres to conventions for terminology to avoid confusion or misunderstanding. There are also conventions for typography to enhance readability and usefulness of the text.

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