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Cisco Secure ACS 3.0 for Windows 2000/NT Servers User Guide
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Working with Logging and Reports
Cisco Secure Access Control Server for Windows NT/2000 Servers Version 3.0
(Cisco Secure ACS) produces a wide variety of logs and provides a way to view
most of these logs in the Cisco Secure ACS HTML interface as HTML reports.
This chapter contains the following topics about logging:
•Logging Formats, page 9-1
•Special Logging Attributes, page 9-2
•Update Packets In Accounting Logs, page 9-3
•About Cisco Secure ACS Logs and Reports, page 9-4
•Working with CSV Logs, page9-19
•Working with ODBC Logs, page9-25
•Remote Logging, page 9-29
•Service Logs, page 9-34

Logging Formats

Cisco Secure ACS logs a variety of user and system activities. Depending on the
log, and how you have configured CiscoSecure ACS, logs can be recorded in one
of two formats:
•Comma-separated value (CSV) files—The CSV format records data in
columns separated by commas. This format is easily imported into a variety
of third-party applications, such as Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access.
After data from a CSV file is imported into such applications, you can prepare