What are the log files?
A log file is a file where the monitoring part of Boss Everyware (also called Logger) records user activity. Loggers running on multiple computers can write into one network-located log file. Log files can be limited by size and time. As soon as the file has reached
its limit and closed, the logger can send it to an administrator-defined e-mail address.
When the Logger is unable to write the log file (e.g. network is down or the
user doesn't have Modify permission to the specified location), it writes into a local temporary storage. As soon as the target log file is available for writing, the logger updates it with the locally stored data.
Log files can be written in Delimiter-Separated Values, dBase III+, or in an original format.
Delimiter-Separated Values files (.dsv, .csv, .tab, .txt)
DSV is a text-based file format with TAB, Comma or a custom character as the value separator. DSV files are widely used for data exchange and can be viewed or imported by most existing database systems. You can set up a custom separator and file extension (TAB/.dsv by default). Boss Everyware can write these files into a write-only location.
dBase III+ files (.dbf, .dbt)
Each log in dBase III+ consists of two files: the first one has the extension .dbf and contains all logged data except keystrokes, the second one has the extension .dbt and contains keystrokes info. These files can be imported by a variety of legacy database systems. dBase III+ files take more disk space than other supported formats.
.Elt files (.elt)
.Elt is the Boss Everyware's own file format. These are binary encrypted files that can be viewed with Report Manager only.
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How to control creation of the log files?
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