Rockwell Automation ControlFLASH Firmware Upgrade Kit User Manual - Manual (Page 38)

38 Rockwell Automation Publication 1756-UM105E-EN-E - October 2012
Chapter 6 ControlFLASH and Factory Talk AssetCentre Interaction
FactoryTalk AssetCentre FactoryTalk AssetCentre offers a centralized repository for tracking and auditing
the changes made to a plant-wide system. Any information related to an
application is logged in to the FactoryTalk AssetCentre server.
The details of the log usually contain the following fields:
• Date/Time
• User Name
• User Description (full user name, based on user information held in a
security token or domain name; required for audit messages)
• Severity of message (error, warning, information, audit)
• Audience for message (operator, engineer, developer, FactoryTalk
AssetCentre)
• Message text (text or resource ID that resolves to text when retrieved or
passed between machine boundaries)
• Argument list (optional placeholders in message text)
Any additional details, apart from the basic fields listed here, can also be logged
on to FactoryTalk AssetCentre server. For example, the
resource field of the Audit
log is not a part of the basic message format and is considered an additional field.
The following ControlFLASH activities are logged:
• Launch of ControlFLASH
• Flash burn started. Includes the following details:
– Date/Time the flash began
– Firmware Revision, both From and To
– Username
– Path to the device being flashed
– Device Target Module Name and Identifier
• Flash Burn Status (Success/Failure)
• Exit of ControlFLASH
The ControlFLASH activities are logged only if the client is properly configured
with FactoryTalk AssetCentre server. ControlFLASH logs the current windows
user login. ControlFLASH software activities are logged into the
log_AuditEventLog table of the FactoryTalk AssetCentre server.
If the connection between the client and server is lost while ControlFLASH is
used, all of the events are cached into a local log and are then updated into
FactoryTalk AssetCentre server when the connection resumes.