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As you can see in 

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 all these logs are grouped under the "LOGGING" label into the main menu.

4.0.1.1 Auditing

The Auditing page shows any change to the configuration performed via the web console. 

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These informations can be used for security checks as for post-issue analysis. 

4.0.1.2 Web Sessions

In the web sessions it's possible to read the list of all the access made to the web console.

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Info

If the user listed is "anonymousUser" then this is an event triggered by the system. This is specifically true for events like the "SESSION_TIMEOUT".

Event Types

Here follows a list of all the event types logged in this table:

  • SESSION_TIMEOUT : pretty self explanatory
  • LOGOUT : The user performed a logout 
  • SUCCESS_INTERACTIVE / SUCCESS : these two events always come together and indicates a login has successfully performed. The former one points out the login happened through the web interface ("interactive"), the latter is a generic successful login log.
  • FAIL_USER_NOT_FOUND : the login used was not found among the users configured.
  • FAIL_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED : the password or the credentials used are set as expired
  • FAIL_BAD_CREDENTIALS : wrong password

4.0.1.3 Call Detailed Records

Despite its name the CDR is a debugging and quality assurance facility. It saves all the calls status, meaning it is very useful to understand is something is going wrong with you Secure Call Service.

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  • Call Date: when the call has been placed.
  • Caller Number: The virtual phone number used to place the call.
  • Caller: The caller description, if any.
  • Caller Group: The caller's group description, if any.
  • Callee Number: The virtual phone number called.
  • Callee: The callee description, if any.
  • Callee Group: The callee's group description, if any.
  • Total Duration: how long the call lasted. Time elapsed from the moment the "Call Button" is pressed on the caller's client to the one in which the communication is closed at all.
  • Call Duration: how long the call lasted, just the voice.
  • Disposition: which result the call had.
  • Hangup Cause: how long the call lasted.
  • Call id: a unique number that identifies the call.
  • Call type: nature of the call performed.
  • Call route: if the call transited on a trunk this field would shown the trunk's name.

Relevant fields in CDR

The Disposition is very important because it tells you the exit code of each call. Possible codes are:

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  1. CALL: Usual call between two persons
  2. 3-WAY: Usual call (as above) with an added person during the call
  3. CONFERENCE: Conference call
  4. TRANSFER: Usual call that is transferred to a third person
The Call id is a number that identifies uniquely the call. It can be used to trace a call if it changes its nature (ie becoming a three-way call) or to group all the participants (ie in a conference room).

 

Info

It's possible to avoid any call record, as a Privacy option. To enable the "No-CDR" option, you just have to set the CDR Period to "DAY" and the duration to '0' (zero).

Warning

The above statement about the CDR Privacy option is true only for the DIRECT calls (which are the calls between two users). Conferences and 3-way calls will be logged as ever, though.

 

4.0.1.4 SIP Sessions

The SIP Sessions page show the activities each Account did with the server. 

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Reconciliation is very useful while debugging SIP session for a specific user: clicking on username field will show a filtered list of SIP session events.

4.0.1.5 App log configuration

As the web interface is made from a Java application in Tomcat, then you can set the logging levels that are going to be written in the catalina.out log file.

Warning

This is an advanced feature usually useful only for debugging purposes. It's not recommended to change the default settings.

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In order to change a log level you have first to select a component of the appliance from the left drop-down menu (please check the 

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). Then you can set a logging level from the right drop-down menu.

When you're done just press the Submit button and the catalina.out log file would change its log level accordingly.

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4.0.1.6 Install messages

Despite its name the CDR is a

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4.0.1.7 Provisioning messages

Despite its name the CDR is a

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