ARA provides a central view and enables to audit the complete process history for retrospective analysis and audits.
A history is automatically tracked for all workflow executions and on changes of properties of ARA objects. These include creation, property changes or status changes and attempted runs for the executions. Details of each history record include updated components and variable values.
The execution history includes the complete deployment parameters.
The audit trail for executions includes the downloadable execution report.
Download an Execution Report
You can download and view reports for workflow executions in a final state in two ways:
Execution Report File Structure
The report file includes the following sections:
Header
The header section provides general information for the execution.
--- HEADER --------------------------------------------------------
Workflow: <Workflowname>
Application: <Applicationname>
Package: <Packagename>
Profile: <Profilename>
Environment: <Environmentname>
Start time: <Starttime>
End time: <Endtime>
Requested by: <User name>
Status: <Status>
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Example:
--- HEADER -------------------------------------------------------- Workflow: AraDeploy
Application: ARA51 Package: Load_c53502ac-93c2-453a-a457-19ddecc96825 Profile: QAtest1 Environment: QAtest1
Start time: 2014-06-02T13:31:39Z End time: 2014-06-02T13:32:29Z
Requested by: 4/ARA/ARA
Status: Finished --------------------------------------------------------------------
Approvals
This section lists all approval requests of the respective execution.
--- APPROVALS -----------------------------------------------------
<all approval requests on this execution, sorted by date ascending>
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Example:
--- APPROVALS ----------------------------------------------------- 2014-06-02T10:09:32Z Approved by 4/ARA1/ARA -------------------------------------------------------------------
History
The execution history section consists of all history records on the execution.
--- HISTORY -------------------------------------------------------
<all history records on this execution, sorted by date ascending>
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Example:
--- HISTORY -------------------------------------------------------- 2014-06-02T13:31:33Z Execution "AraDeploy" was created by 4/ARA/ARA. 2014-06-02T13:31:33Z The workflow execution "AraDeploy" was scheduled for "2014-06-02 13 by 4/ARA/ARA. 2014-06-02T13:31:33Z The status of execution "AraDeploy" was changed to "Active". 2014-06-02T13:31:43Z The workflow "AraDeploy" was executed by 4/ARA/ARA with run ID 137376276. 2014-06-02T13:34:01Z The status of execution "AraDeploy" was changed to "Finished". --------------------------------------------------------------------
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Deployment XML
The deployment XML section consists of the plain XML data related to the deployment.
--- DEPLOYMENT XML ------------------------------------------------
<deployment XML>
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Password variables are displayed as ****
Overview
The overview section consists of workflow or action name, run id and the state of the workflow/action.
--- OVERVIEW ------------------------------------------------------
<NAME> | <RUNID> | <STATUS>
...
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Reports
The reports section consists of all detail reports for each workflow or action of this workflow.
--- REPORTS ------------------------------------------------------
RunID: <RUNID> (<NAME>)
Type: <WORKFLOW> or <ACTION>
Status: <STATUS>
Started: <STARTTIME>
Ended: <ENDTIME>
<REPORTTYPE>:
<FULLREPORT>
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...
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Example:
--- REPORTS -------------------------------------------------------- RunID: 137376276 (RM.AUTOMIC.ARADEPLOY.DEPLOY1) Type: WORKFLOW Runbook: RM.AUTOMIC.ARADEPLOY.DEPLOY1
Status: ENDED_OK - ended normally Started: 2014-06-02T11:32:00Z Ended: 2014-06-02T11:33:00Z -------------------------------------------------------------------- RunID: 137376395 (IIS_TO_IISTARGET14) Type: WORKFLOW Runbook: IIS_TO_IISTARGET14 Status: ENDED_OK - ended normally Started: 2014-06-02T11:32:00Z Ended: 2014-06-02T11:32:00Z --------------------------------------------------------------------