After an import operation that includes the option to generate an audit file, use the
audit file to generate an audit report. The audit report provides detailed information about the
converted and imported objects.
Use FileNet® Deployment Manager to generate an audit report to present the
contents of the audit file. The audit file captures a record of changes to the destination
environment by the converted and imported objects. The operation to generate an audit report
operation is an information-only operation; it reads the audit file and does not modify the
destination environment.
The audit file captures a finer level of detail for the differences between assets in the
destination FileNet P8 domain and the assets in the deployment data set. The audit file provides
more detail than the change impact analysis report that is produced by the analysis operation. For
each object in the deployment data set that is represented in the audit file, the following
information is placed into the generated audit report:
- An asterisk at the beginning of the header line for an object to indicate that an object changes
in the destination environment as a result of the import.
- Values for all scalar properties with both the before and after values when the values are
different as a result of the import. The minus sign indicates the before value. The plus sign
indicates the after value. A double plus sign '++' is used to indicate the after value for a
property that is new. If the object itself is new, all of its properties are marked with the double
plus sign.
- IDs of all object valued properties:
- If those objects also appear in the deployment data set, they are among the objects that are
captured in the audit file and the ID can be used to locate them in the audit report.
- If those objects do not appear in the deployment data set, they must exist in the destination
environment in order for the import operation to succeed. The ID can be used to locate them in the
destination environment.
Important: If an object is skipped during the import, it does not appear in the
audit report.
You can generate an audit report from the FileNet Deployment Manager graphical
user interface or from the command-line interface. The following procedure describes how to generate
an audit report from the graphical user interface.