How to view Admin activity in Symantec Messaging Gateway
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How to view Admin activity in Symantec Messaging Gateway

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Article ID: 155569

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Messaging Gateway

Issue/Introduction

You want to know how to view an audit of administrator activity of the Messaging Gateway.

Resolution

Some administrative events are logged in the Control Center event logs. They can be viewed via the Status -> Logs page:

  1. Go to Status -> Logs
  2. Select “Control Center” as the component
  3. Select “Event Logs” as the log type

Download the needed Brightmail_Admin_Events.yyyy.mm.dd.log
 
Below is a sample of what the event log can look like:

Nov 14 2022 06:10:32 - Messages older than 2011-11-14 00:10:32 have been released. User: HOLDING_QUEUE_EXPUNGER.
Nov 14 2022 06:13:05 - User 'admin' has logged in.
Nov 14 2022 06:14:34 - The content filtering policy 'Legal Disclaimer' has been changed by the admin.

To identify the activity performed by different administrators, additional admin level login accounts need to be set up in advance.