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Audit Trail 11 LFFTS Default Path

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Updated January 6, 2022
asked on December 23, 2021

Hi All, 

 

I'd just like to highlight that having the default LFFTS path for Audit Trail on the C:\ drive isn't such a good idea. Perhaps this step in the install can be blank, and users can select C:\ if they wish, but making C:\ the default has caught a couple of our engineers out in the last few months. 

Please can I flag this a feature request to have this changed?

 

Cheers!

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replied on December 27, 2021

Hi Chris,

This is a good suggestion and I've run into the issue a few times myself. I've filed it as Audit Trail 11 Issue # 358818 for reference.

Cheers,
Sam

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replied on December 29, 2021

Chris, after some internal discussion we're leaning towards updating the catalog location confirmation dialog text to include additional detail and warning about placing it on the C: drive. Something like changing from the current:

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to something more like:

"Audit Trail uses the Laserfiche Full-Text Search Engine to create an indexed catalog of audit data for faster reporting. For active repositories that generate many audit events, this catalog can grow to many gigabytes in size. We recommend placing the catalog on a different drive than the root (C:) to avoid server issues from running out of disk space due to catalog growth, especially for Production systems. Please verify or change the following catalog location and confirm."

We're hesitant to leave it blank without additional guidance because that's liable to result in people not being sure what to do and putting the catalog in all sorts of weird locations like "C:\Temp" without addressing the actual issue at hand.

Thoughts?

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replied on December 30, 2021

Hey Sam,

 

Anything would be an improvement to what it is now.

 

Thinking out loud, this is only the LFFTS catalog, not the actual audit logs which are stored in the repository folder. So even if people do decide to put it in C:\Temp or wherever, they aren't going to loose any data, as that's all stored in the audit logs themselves. They wouldn't be in a worse situation if it were C:\program data or C:\Temp, it would still fill the C:\ drive just the same.

 

I would still say leave it blank.......... but it's obviously your decision smiley

 

Cheers!

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replied on January 5, 2022 • Show version history

Hey Chris,

A revised dialog like the above will be going out along with an Audit Trail patch later this month. While we're going to keep the default path there for now, hopefully the new wording adds useful clarity so people can understand why they might want to put the catalog on a different drive. 

Thanks again for raising the issue.

Cheers,
Sam

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replied on January 6, 2022

Thanks Sam!

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replied on January 5, 2022 • Show version history

Hey Chris,

A revised dialog like the above will be going out along with an Audit Trail patch later this month. While we're going to keep the default path there for now, hopefully the new wording adds useful clarity so people can understand why they might want to put the catalog on a different drive. 

Thanks again for raising the issue.

Cheers,
Sam

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