The NetWare administrator utility

Enabling and viewing the print server auditing log

The print server auditing log provides information about all jobs that have been printed. Auditing records are retained as ASCII files so that they can be read with any text editor.

By default, no audit log is created. When you enable the audit log feature you can do the following:

View the log. Use PCONSOLE to view the log.
Limit the log size. By default, the log has no size limitations. The log's current size is displayed in the dialog.
Delete the log. Deleting an audit log destroys the current log and, if auditing is enabled, starts a new log by the same name in the same directory.

In designing the auditing log, it has been recognized that companies do accounting in a variety of ways. For this reason, the auditing log provides a basic default format based on ASCII text and a fixed record length. Both characteristics are designed to make it as easy as possible to write a customized program to retrieve the information it needs in a format determined by a particular company.

The auditing log is sufficiently flexible to record whatever information a printer sends to it. Regardless of printer type, the log will record how many bytes a job took to print, the user who submitted the job, when the job entered the print queue, when the job was printed, and what printer serviced the job.

If the printer is an XNP type used by Macintosh or UNIX, the log might also indicate how long it took to print the job, how many pages were printed, when the job was printed, and when the job was submitted.