Auditing User Activity

Oracle Applications provides a Sign-On Audit feature that allows you to:
Track what your users are doing and when they do it.
Choose who to audit and what type of information to audit.
View quickly online what your users are doing.
Check the security of your application.
With Sign-On Audit, you can record usernames, terminals, and the dates and times
your users access Oracle Applications. Sign-On Audit can also track the
responsibilities and forms your users use, as well as the concurrent processes they
run.
Major Features
Selective Auditing
Sign-On Audit lets you choose who to audit and what type of user information to
track. You can selectively determine what audit information you need, to match your
organization's needs.
Monitor Application Users
The Monitor Users form gives you online, real-time information about who is using
Oracle Applications and what they are doing.
You can see what users are signed on (application username and operating system
login name), what responsibilities, forms, and terminals they are using, how long
they have been working on forms, and what ORACLE processes they are using.

Sign-On Audit Reports

Sign-On Audit Reports give you historical, detailed information on what your users
do in your application.
You can give search criteria to narrow your search for information.

You can also sort your Sign-On Audit information to create easy-to-read reports.

See Also
Overview of User and Data AuditingTest Dummy document
A user profile is a set of changeable options that affect the way your application
runs. The system administrator can set user profiles at different levels:
Site level These settings apply to all users at an installation site.
Application level These settings apply to all users of any responsibility
associated with the application.
Responsibility level These settings apply to all users currently signed on under
the responsibility.
User level These settings apply to an individual user, identified by their
application username.
Values set at a higher level cascade as defaults to the lower levels. Values set at
a lower level override any default from a higher level.

Suggestion: Set site-level options first to ensure that all options have a default.
If a profile option does not have a default value, it might cause errors when you
use windows, run reports, or run concurrent requests.
You use the System Profile Values window to set profile options at each level for
your user community. If you change a user profile option value, your change takes
effect as soon as your users log on again or change responsibilities.

Application users can the Personal Profile Values window to set their own profile
options at the user level. Not all profile options are visible to users, and some
profile options, while visible, cannot be updated by end users. Any changes a user
makes to his or her personal profile options take effect immediately.

List of User Profile Options

There are a number of User Profile Options that are of specific importance to HRMS
system administrators. These are listed in Table 1 - 14 and Table 1 - 15. The only
one of these options that a user can change is DateTrack:Reminder.
HR Option Purpose
HR:Business Group Business Group that is linked to the security profile for a
responsibility. This option is used online to control access to records that are
not related to organization, position, or payroll.
This option is seeded at Site level with the start-up Business Group. It is view
only. Values are derived from the HR:Security Profile user profile option.
HR:Security Profile Restricts access to the organizations, positions, and
payrolls defined in the security profile. This option is seeded at Site level with
the view-all security profile created for the Startup Business Group.
HR:User Type Limits field access on windows shared between Oracle Human
Resources and Oracle Payroll. If you do not use Oracle Payroll, it must be set to
HR User for all responsibilities.
If you do use Oracle Payroll, you can give each Responsibility one of the following
user types, depending on the work role of the holders of the responsibility: HR
User, HR with Payroll User, Payroll User
HR:Query Only Mode Restricts access to view-only for all HR and Payroll forms
on a menu.
HR:Use Standard Attachments Disables the facility to attach short text comments
to records. Enables the attachment of multiple items of various types including OLE
objects, Web pages, images, and word processed documents.
Table 1 - 14. HR User Profile Options

DateTrack Option Purpose

DateTrack:Date Security Controls the way users can change their effective date: All
(users can change to any date), Past (users can change to dates in the past only),
Present (users cannot change their effective date), Future (users can change to
dates in the future only)
DateTrack:Reminder Determines whether the Decision window appears when a
datetracked window opens: Always (the window always appears), Never (the window
never appears), Not Today (the window appears only if the effective date is not the
system date)
Table 1 - 15. DateTrack User Profile Options