Cisco Systems 4.1 Performing Change Audit Tasks

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Chapter 13 Tracking Network Changes Using Change Audit
Performing Change Audit Tasks
Performing Change Audit Tasks
Change Audit allows you to:
• Determine changes being made in the network during critical operations time
System administrators can define the start and end times during the day when network changes
should not be made. Based on this selection you can quickly see, for a given day, whether changes
were made when they should not be.
See Defining Exception Periods for defining the exception periods.
• Define automated actions on creation of change audit record
Automated action gets triggered on creation of the change audit record. You can define any number
of automated actions. The supported automated actions are, E-mail, Traps, and Automated scripts
See Defining Automated Actions for defining the Change Audit automated actions.
• Monitor your software image distribution and download history for software changes made using
the Software Management application.
Software Management automatically sends network change data to the Change Audit summary and
details tables.
See Generating 24 Hours and Standard Change Audit Reports for generating the Change Audit
reports.
• Track any configuration file changes
Device Configuration automatically sends data on configuration file changes to the Change Audit
log.
See Generating 24 Hours and Standard Change Audit Reports for generating the Change Audit
reports.
• Monitor inventory additions, deletions, or changes
Inventory tracks specific messages or monitors any and all changes in your network inventory. To
set inventory filters, use the Inventory Change Filter option.
See Generating 24 Hours and Standard Change Audit Reports for generating the Change Audit
reports.
• View all the latest changes that occurred in the network over the last 24 hours
24-Hour Reports provides a quick way to access the latest changes in the Change Audit log.
See Generating 24 Hours and Standard Change Audit Reports for generating the Change Audit
reports.
• Purging the Change Audit records
Frees disk space and maintains your Change Audit records at a manageable size. You can either
schedule for periodic purge or perform a forced purge of Change Audit data.
See Performing Maintenance Tasks for scheduling a periodic purge.
• Generating change audit data in XML format
cwcli export changeaudit is a command line tool that also provides servlet access to change audit
data. This tool uses the existing Change Audit log data and generates the Change Audit log data in
XML format.
See Overview: cwcli export Command for generating the Change Audit data in XML format.
• Set the debug mode for Change Audit application