Reference Manual - Videx, Inc.

Audit Data TrimmingCyberAudit-Web automatically trims old audit events from it's database on a periodic basis. Thiskeeps daily backups of CyberAudit-Web smaller and helps ensure that audit reports can bedisplayed in a timely manner. The trimmed audit data cannot be restored to CyberAudit-Web but itcan be imported into Excel or a third party database for SQL queries and reporting.The format of the file is CSV (comma separated value). The general CSV format is documented inRFC 4180. CyberAudit-Web CSV files conform to the following rules:The file is Unicode text encoded as UTF-8. If text fields appear incorrectly after import be sureto specify UTF-8 when importing.One record per line.Lines are terminated using the Windows conventional CRLF (\r\n)Fields in a record are delimited by comma: ,The first line is the table header. It lists the field names for each column. Each field name issuffixed with it's type.Text fields are double quoted.Text fields will never contain newlines.Double quotes within a text field will be escaped by a second double quote.All fields can be NULL (unknown or not-applicable)NULL fields are left emtpy (even text fields). (eg ...,"before null",,"after null",... )Field types are:Integer ( i) Example: 12345Text ( t) Example: "hello world"Boolean ( b) 0 for false, 1 for trueReal ( r) Example: 3.14Time ( m) Example: 14:37:41Date ( d) Example: 2012-02-14Timestamp ( p) Example: 2012-02-14 14:37:41Real numbers will be in either standard or scientific notation. (eg 3.14 or 1.230e-09)Dates and times are output according to ISO 8601 ( yyyy-mm-dd"T"hh:mm:ss). For example:2012-02-28T11:09:03 The time zone designator suffix is ommitted.Dates and times are local to the time zone in which the event occurred unless the field namehas the "_utc" suffix. UTC (aka GMT) times will need to be converted to your local time zonewhen displaying reports.The records should be assumed to be unordered.