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Pervasive AuditMaster Product Information
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Pervasive AuditMaster is the database auditing solution that
you can plug into your database and application immediately
- with no code changes required! AuditMaster allows you to
gain full monitoring over your database for specific operations,
such as adds, changes, deletes, or even simple reads. You
can even configure it for proactive notification when key
criteria are met -- providing instantaneous awareness of improper
access.
The AuditMaster product installs a component to your database
engine called the Event Handler that intercepts a specific
set of database events (you specific which events to capture
in the configuration) and writes them to an audit log database.
This logging occurs inside the database engine, and not in
any kind of "application shim". Since it runs as
part of the database process itself, it captures events from
your primary application, but it can also capture events from
users of applications like Access, Crystal Reports, and other
ODBC systems. No other auditing system can capture such a
wide range of sources, yet AuditMaster does it with a minimal
amount of overhead involved!
Once the data is in the log database, it can be queried with
the provided Log Viewer. This viewer allows you to quickly
create a variety of saved queries with the ability to see
not only the date and time of an event, but also the username,
the application, the network address from which the event
occurred, the table name, the operation, and the return code.
For change or delete events, you can also see the data that
was changed or removed -- available at the field level if
DDF's are provided! Since the database is a standard Pervasive.SQL
database, it can also be queried by external sources like
Crystal Reports or even your own applications.
AuditMaster also provides the ability to actively monitor
for specific events, including specific status codes or specific
types of operations, and notify a system administrator via
Email or even running another application. Here's a few possible
uses of this functionality:
- Monitoring Admin User Usage:
Spawn an alert whenever the Administrator user accesses the database from a location other than a specific authorized
network address.
- Status 2 Monitoring:
When data file corruption is detected, automatically send an Email to the application support personnel so that
the database can be fixed as quickly as possible. This reduces downtime and improves user satisfaction with the
system!
- Reduce Theft: Review
changes made to customer shipping addresses to prevent unscrupulous employees from changing the address to their
own, processing the shipment, and then changing it back.
- Database Rollback:
Roll back your entire database to a point-in-time snapshot, undoing all recent changes. This can be quite valuable
for recovering after a failure, or when resorting to last night's backup offers too much data loss.
- Monitoring Hacker Access:
Certain data files, such as those containing credit card data, should never be accessed by anything outside the
core application. You can now obtain instant alerts when a critical file is accessed from any non-standard location.
- And Many More: We are
still thinking of new uses for this powerful tool!
The current versions of AuditMaster are v6.2, v6.3, and v6.4:
- AuditMaster v6.2 is supported on Pervasive.SQL V8 Windows Server database engines only. Workgroup Engines are NOT supported at this time. If you have Pervasive.SQL V8, you can NOT upgrade to 6.3 at this time -- you must upgrade to PSQLv9 first. This release will become completely unsupported as of December 31, 2006.
- AuditMaster v6.3 is supported on Pervasive PSQL v9.1 server database engines only, but there is a version for Windows Servers AND one for NetWare servers. (There is no AuditMaster for Linux yet.)
- AuditMaster v6.4 is supported on Pervasive PSQL v10.0, but ONLY as an upgrade from a PSQLv9 installation. (AuditMaster v7.0 for new PSQLv10 installations is expected to be released with Service Pack 1.) This product currently works with 32-bit versions of PSQLv10 only.
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