Aspire Index Auditing
Available from (2.1 Release) The Aspire Index Auditing is a feature aimed to help the Administrators to administrators keep track of all content source actions and search engine indexes in order to identify possible differences and problems between both of them. The
Index Auditing consists in of three new additionscomponents:
- Content Source auditing
- Search Engine index auditing (publisher index dumps)
- Reconciliation file between the content source and search engine auditing files
Content
sources auditingSources Auditing
By default, every content source will log every action done for each of the documents crawled, to disable it go to the the Advanced Connector Properties in in the content source configuration and uncheck the the Enable Auditing option. option.
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There are 2 types of events logged:
Job
- Indicates an event for one single job
Batch
- Indicates an event for a batch of jobs
The actions that are being logged by the auditing are:
Workflow completedAdd:
- The document was sent to be processed to the workflow as an add
BatchCompleted:
- The processing batch finished successfully
BatchError:
- The processing batch finished with error
Excluded:
- The document was excluded by index pattern configuration, no further processing was done for it
Update:
- The document was sent to be processed to the workflow as an update
Delete:
- The document was sent to be processed to the workflow as a delete
NoChange:
- The document was found as not changed, no further processing was done for it
The document was excluded by index pattern configuration, no further processing was done for it
WorkflowComplete:
- The document finished the workflow successfully
Workflow
errorError:
- The document finished the workflow with an error
Workflow
terminatedTerminated:
- The document was terminated by a workflow rule
CrawlBegin:
- Indicates the beginning of the crawl process
CrawlEnd:
- Indicates the ending of the crawl process
How to Access the Auditing
Step 1
The processing batch finished successfully
The processing batch finished with errorTo see the audit logs of any crawls from the Aspire UI, open the content source statistics, and click click View Audit Logs:
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Step 2
After you click Once you clicked on View Audit Logs, the following page will be displayed:Image Removed
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Step 3
You can also filter the audit logs by action:Image Removedtype and/or action.
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By Type
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By Action
Search Engine
index auditingIndex Auditing
The auditing log files for a search engine are generated via index dumps. At the moment only Only these publishers are able to create index dumps:
To dump an index and compare it you have to:
Go to any auditing page of a content source, and click on Index Compare, select - Select the publisher (should be configured to create index dumps) and click
on - on Compare to:
- Go to any auditing page of a content source, and click on Image Added,
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- It will open a pop-up window for generating both index dumps and reconciliation files
Select New Index Dump and then click on to - to start an index dump. Take into account that the index dump will be executed
agains - against the documents indexed by this content source only.
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- You will see the dump state getting refresh by clicking on
the button- button, and once it finish you will see it in the dumps dropdown list:
- Select the index dump you have just created (notice the button action changes when you select an index dump) and click
on - on Start Comparison
- When the comparison finishes you are going to be able to see the reconciliation file:
Auditing
filesFiles
All publisher and content source audit files are located at {aspire-distribution-home}/audit.
- The reconciliation audit files, once created, will be located under the folder named: {content-source-name}_{publisher-name}_diff
- Each content source, publisher, or reconciliation folder under the audit folder can contain multiple audit files each identified by a timestamp:
Image Removed- For content sources audit files, the timestamp is the crawl start time.
- For publishers and reconciliation the timestamp is the time of the audit file creation.
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