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Notes database activity logging
IBM® Lotus® Notes® database activity logging tracks Notes database activity that occurs during a server session. Database records include such information as the name of the database, the name and address of the database user, the number of documents read and written, the number of bytes read and written, the total number of transactions executed in the database, and the length of time the database was open. Servers, users, and API programs can all generate database activity.

There are five types of activity logging records for database activity:

This table contains a few examples of the types of activities that generate each type of database record.
Type of recordType of activity
Open
  • Opening a database or any action that opens a database, such as checking database properties
  • Starting replication, including opening a database to determine if replication is needed (even if no replication is needed)*
  • Having a remote server open another server's MAIL.BOX
Checkpoint
  • Editing documents
  • Saving and updating documents
  • Viewing or changing an ACL
  • Performing any other database activity while a database is open
Close
  • Closing a database
  • Ending replication
  • Logging off, either manually or automatically (one record for each open database)
  • Exiting Notes (one record for each open database)
  • Having a remote server close MAIL.BOX
CloseEnd
  • Closing a database at the end of a session
  • Closing databases that the server opened for replication
  • Logging off of Notes
  • Exiting Notes
MailDepositDepositing a mail message that does not contain an attachment into MAIL.BOX
* When IBM® Lotus® Domino® closes databases after determining that replication is not necessary, it generates a Close record that contains 0 (zero) in the Duration field.

CloseEnd records log the total activity in a database during a Notes session. Each time a user opens and closes a database during a session, Domino creates separate database Open and Close records. When the user closes the Notes session, Domino generates a CloseEnd record for each database that was open during the session. The CloseEnd record consolidates the total activity in the database during the entire Notes session. Therefore, if you open and close a database several times during a Notes session, Domino generates multiple Open and Close records for that database, but only one CloseEnd record.

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