Log.nsf or activity.nsf (usage by user)

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Can someone point me in the direction of what it really means when a report shows a user opened another users’s mailbox and it shows (Docs Read)

Let’s use myself as an example. I look at this report today for yesterday and it shows I opened or in someway touched 5 mail databases (all in my department, I am the Notes admin).

It shows under (docs read) that I read anywhere from 6 -10 docs under that report.

Now I know I didn’t go into these mailboxes, but I did go into a “Group Calendar View” from my mailbox which shows the calendars of each of the people in my department.

I didn’t open any of there appointments.

So my question is, if we have an admin who we think is opening people’s mailboxes and reading email how can we be sure by looking at that number?

Especially because my name shows so many opens that I know I did not do?

Any help would be appreciated.

Or any explanation of what constitues a (Doc Read) in these reports.

Thanks!

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Subject: log.nsf or activity.nsf (usage by user)

HI

A very simple explanaion is that when you gather informations about someone else’s calendar,

in order to display them, the server log it… even if you do not open the appointments.

ian

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Subject: RE: log.nsf or activity.nsf (usage by user)

Hi, Do you have “undocumented” complete list about those activities?

i.e:

Read = open document, edit document, etc

Write = open view, write email ?

Why Lotus can not be specific in activity log?

The button said “User Detail” but not much detail information that I can get from there.

How do you know what kind of activities that your server has done to your mailbox?

Did it read your email? Did it replicate your mail? Did it write new email?

It is about security issue here.

Regards,

Ivan

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Subject: RE: log.nsf or activity.nsf (usage by user)

Hi

I believe that every time your client access to the server, it logs it as a ‘read’.

(whenever you only show the amount of unread documents).

Why would an opened view be a write event ?

Btw, it ain’t a security issue at all.

And further, fundamentally, the server should be able to do whatever he wants with you email.:wink:

ian

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Subject: RE: log.nsf or activity.nsf (usage by user)

Hello Ian,

Yes, you’re right,

But what if the server do whatever on behalf of somebody?

I think the problem is we have lotus notes client installed on server. so, anyone who knows the windows password, can login and open any mailbox easily :slight_smile:

Cheers,

Ivan.