Smarts SAM: What is the format for the SAM audit file

Products

• VMware

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

Smarts SAM: What is the format for the Smarts Service Assurance Manager (Smarts SAM) audit file?

The Smarts SAM .audit file is found in the following

location:<BASEDIR>/SAM/smarts/local/logs/<domain name>.audit:

The format of the data in the Smarts SAM audit file is as follows:

TimeStamp inseconds
TimeStamp
Notification Name
ClassName of the Obj that the notification occurred on
InstanceName of the Obj that the notification occurred on
eventName
SerialNumber ( Number starts from 0 and increment by 1 and matched by entry in "audit log" tab in notification view ) 
User
ActionType
text (most of case is the server name that send in the notification)

Additional Information

Dell-EMC Support reserves its rights to the content of this file. Therefore, EMC Smarts Support cannot guarantee the consistency of the layout of this file.  It is NOT recommended to use audit file for any reporting purposes. The audit log is mainly used internally for debugging purposes.