Metrics Management supports logging changes that users make to objects, data, and commentary in the database. Metrics Management records the user name and time of the change. Optionally, Metrics Management can record the changed values of data and commentary, but including the changed values causes your audit log to grow dramatically. Best practice is to log the user name and time only. The system specialist can choose to log changes to any of the following items:
Metrics Management objects
A Metrics Management object is an item that has a defined set of properties. For example, briefing books, filters, locations, maps, and users are all objects.
User data
User data is numerical database content that a user types or imports into the database.
User commentary
User commentary is an explanation of the performance of a measure.
How to define database audit settings
1 Choose Setup➛Configure.
2 In Auditing, as shown in Figure 1‑22, select the items to log.
Metrics Management objects
