Security Audit SmartObject

Use the Security Audit SmartObject to generate an audit log of all authorization framework security changes in your K2 environment. You can, for example, use this SmartObject to generate reports for auditing, compliance or regulatory purposes. You must be a member of the Security Administrators role to execute methods of the Security Audit SmartObject. Find this SmartObject in the K2 Designer at: All Items > System > Management > Security > SmartObjects > Security Audit and in K2 Management at Categories > System > Management > Security > SmartObjects > Security Audit in K2 Management.

Do not modify System SmartObjects in any way. These SmartObjects are used internally by K2, and K2 software updates may modify these SmartObjects, undoing your changes. If you wish to modify a System SmartObject, create a copy of the SmartObject and edit the copy.

SmartObject Properties

Name	Type	Description	Example Value
AuditID	Number	The unique ID of the audit item	2269
LogTimeStampUtc	DateTime	The time stamp of the of audit log item, in UTC format	2018-12-18T10:53:10
ModifiedBy	Text	The user, group or role that made the security change	K2:DENALLIX\Administrator
ModifiedByType	Text	The identity type that made the change. Can be a User, Role or Group	User
AuditActionName	Text	This is the action that was performed on an object, class or identity. The following actions can be performed: Action Value Action Name Description 0 None No action or an unknown action 1 Register An entity was registered 2 Deregister An entity was deregistered 4 Grant An identity was granted rights on an entity 5 Deny An identity was denied rights on an entity 6 Revoke An identity’s rights were revoked on an entity 31 UpdateName An entity's name was updated 32 UpdateClass An entity's class was updated 33 UpdateParent An entity's parent was updated 34 UpdateInherit An entity's inherit flag was updated 35 UpdatePropagate An entity's propagate flag was updated 36 UpdateOwner An entity's owner was updated 37 UpdateActionMask An entity's action mask was updated 38 UpdateDisplayName An entity's display name was updated The audit entry always refer to a class, but if it refers to an object as well, the action pertains to that object If an action refers to an Identity (Grant, Deny and Revoke actions), the affected identity columns are populated for the entry, otherwise it will be empty	Register
ClassName	Text	The type of entity that the security action was performed against	Application
ClassID	GUID	The global unique identifier of the affected entity	45d0bfee-408f-4762-b971-420b980b279
ObjectName	Text	The name of the affected entity	Employees
ObjectDisplayName	Text	The display name of the affected entity	Workspace Registration
ObjectID	GUID	The unique ID of the affected entity	45d0bfee-408f-4762-b971-420b980b279
ActionName	Text	The name of the logged action performed	View Data
ActionID	GUID	The ID of the action in GUID format	45d0bfee-408f-4762-b971-420b980b279
AffectedIdentity	Text	The identity affected by the security change	Security Administrators
AffectedIdentityType	Text	The identity type of the identity affected by the security change	Role
Rights	Number	The Authorization right that was logged. Use the table below to identify which right was logged: Right Description Rights Value Hexadecimal Value View Allows you to see items at design time 100671488 6002000 Create Allows you to create items at design time. 16777216 1000000 Modify Allows you to update items at design time. 268435456 10000000 Modify + View Allows you to update and view items at design time. 369106944 16002000 Modify +Create + Delete + View Allows you to update, create, delete and view items at design time. 520101888 1F002000 Modify +Create + Delete + View + Execute Allows you to update, create, delete, view, and execute items at design time. 520102016 1F002080 Execute Allows you to use items at runtime. 128 80 Delete Allows you to delete items at design time. 134217728 8000000 Security Allows you to administer security. 281474976710656 1000000000000 Security + View Allows you to administer security and view items at design time. 281475077382144 281475077382144 Read (RLS) Read right used in Authorization 2 2 None No rights 0 0 All Rights Allows you to perform any action. -1 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF A rights value can be a combination of values, for example, Create and Execute rights are 16777216 + 128. The easiest way to see which values combine to give the rights value is to convert the value to hexadecimal. For example, the combination of Create and Execute rights is 16777344, which in hexadecimal is 1000080.
AuditEntry	Memo	The AuditEntry represents all the return properties as a single line of text. It contains all of the information for a single log entry (AuditId, LogTimestampUtc, etc) as JSON-formatted text	{"AuditID":2322,"LogTimeStampUtc":"2018-12-14T05:43:33.727","ModifiedBy":"K2:DENALLIX\\BOB", "ModifiedByType":"User","AuditActionName":"Register","ClassName":null,"ClassID":"3edb0c3c-07e2-45a8-b254-c62ada5ff90f", "ObjectName":"Employees","ObjectDisplayName":null,"ObjectID":"d7c69dd4-5273-4fc9-ba05-54c8bddaeefa", "ActionName":null,"ActionID":null,"AffectedIdentity":null,"AffectedIdentityType":null,"Rights":null}
List_AuditEntry_	Memo	The List_AuditEntry_ is all the return properties for all the returned log entries (more than one AuditEntry value) combined as a single JSON-formatted line of text	{"AuditID":2322,"LogTimeStampUtc":"2018-12-14T05:43:33.727","ModifiedBy":"K2:DENALLIX\\BOB", "ModifiedByType":"User","AuditActionName":"Register","ClassName":null,"ClassID":"3edb0c3c-07e2-45a8-b254-c62ada5ff90f", "ObjectName":"Employees","ObjectDisplayName":null,"ObjectID":"d7c69dd4-5273-4fc9-ba05-54c8bddaeefa", "ActionName":null,"ActionID":null,"AffectedIdentity":null,"AffectedIdentityType":null,"Rights":null}

SmartObject Methods

The Security Audit SmartObject includes the following methods:

Method	Description	Properties
List	Lists all the properties and their values of the SmartObject	AuditID LogTimeStampUtc ModifiedBy ModifiedByType AuditActionName ClassName ClassID ObjectName ObjectDisplayName ObjectID ActionName ActionID AffectedIdentityType Rights AuditEntry List_AuditEntry_
List To Serialized Item	Lists all properties in a serialized format	AuditEntry
Read to Serialized Item	Reads all properties in a serialized format	List_AuditEntry_

Example: using the Security Audit SmartObject

You can create a list view in K2 Designer to build a re-usable View and Form to list security audit events, or execute the Security Audit SmartObject in K2 Management to list security changes in your environment.

In K2 Designer, generate a list view of the Security Audit SmartObject and run the view to view the audit log:

In K2 Management, execute the List, List To Serialized Item, or and Read to Serialized Item methods, to view the audit log:

Considerations

• There is no retention policy applied to the audit logs captured by the Security Audit SmartObject. Audit log information is retained indefinitely in your SQL database. If you want to remove the audit log information, contact Nintex Customer Central for further assistance
• Audit Log information is stored in your SQL database not in files. If your database begins to run out of disk space and you want to free up space by removing audit log information, contact Nintex Customer Central for further assistance
• The security audit SmartObject only stores security changes set from the authorization framework.