Security Log
The security Log summarizes actions taken by admins and moderators on your community.
Your security log explained.
Where to find the security log for your community.
Click on Log in the Log & Stats section of your admin menu.
This will take you to your security log.
Searching your log
Use the little plus sign to see the filter options in your log.
This is useful when you need to do a quick search for a particular action.
You can filter the log by date, action, IP, profile and message. You can do a look up for a member name using message.
Understanding your log.
Admin and moderator actions get logged in a way that you can find them easily when using the filter.
We will list the actions as well as the messages for a better understanding of the log.
Forum and category management
Any change made to the forum and category management page gets logged, except for moving forums and turning forums into sub forums (and vice versa)
Adding/deleting/restoring categories, forums and chat.
Add a category:
action: directoryAdd
message:
User: Chris W962 added Folder: "New Category" to Parent: 0
Delete Category:
action: DirectoryDelete
message:
User Chris W962 deleted Folder: "Category Name Example "
Add a forum:
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 added Box: "New Forum" to folder: "New Category"
Delete forum:
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 deleted forum "Public Forum Name " in folder: "Category Name Example "[restore]
Restore a forum:
action: boxRestored
message:
User: Chris W962 has restored forum: forum two in: "This is a category"
Add a chat room:
action: BoxChanged
Message:
User: Chris W962 added Box: "New Chatroom" to folder: "This is a category"
Delete chat room:
action: Boxchanged.
message:
User: Chris W962 deleted forum "New Chatroom" in folder: "This is a category"
Editing forum info and category titles
Edit category title:
action: directoryUpdate
message:
User: Chris W962 changed Folder: "New Category" Title to: "This is a category"
Edit forum title:
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 changed name from: "New Forum" to: "Welcome", display name from: "New Forum" to: "Welcome" in folder:
"This is a category"
Edit forum description:
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 changed description in folder: "This is a category"
Editing reading restrictions.
On the forum settings page, all actions performed are logged except for changed made to posting restrictions.
Making a public forum invisible:
action: boxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Mod room" : "is_hidden" set to: "1" in folder: "This is a category"
Making an invisible forum public:
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Mod room" : "is_hidden" set to: "0" in folder: "This is a category"
Making a public forum MBA:
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Mod room" : "is_mba" set to: "1" in folder: "This is a category"
Making an MBA forum public:
action: BoxChanged.
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Mod room" : "is_mba" set to: "0" in folder: "This is a category"
Setting a forum to "teaser title"
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Mod room" : "is_mba" set to: "2" in folder: "This is a category"
Setting a forum to "teaser topic"
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Mod room" : "is_mba" set to: "3" in folder: "This is a category"
Editing forum features.
Change to yuku topic layout
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "topic_layout" set to: "0" in folder: "This is a category"
Change to ezboard topic layout:
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "topic_layout" set to: "1" in folder: "This is a category"
Change to threaded topic layout:
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "topic_layout" set to: "2" in folder: "This is a category"
Change any topic layout back to default:
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "topic_layout" set to: "-1" in folder: "This is a category"
Uncheck display views, kudos, search tags:
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "show_views" set to: "0" in folder: "This is a category"
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "show_kudos" set to: "0" in folder: "This is a category"
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "show_tags" set to: "0" in folder: "This is a category"
Check display views, kudos, search tags:
action: BoxChanged.
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "show_views" set to: "1" in folder: "This is a category"
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "show_kudos" set to: "1" in folder: "This is a category"
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "show_tags" set to: "1" in folder: "This is a category"
Editing posting restrictions
Disallowing edit own posts, delete own posts:
action: BoxChanged.
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "allow_edits" set to: "0" in folder: "This is a category"
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "allow_deletes" set to: "0" in folder: "This is a category"
Disallowing emoticons, avatars, signatures:
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "allow_emoticons" set to: "0" in folder: "This is a category"
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "allow_avatars" set to: "0" in folder: "This is a category"
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "allow_signatures" set to: "0" in folder: "This is a category"
Disabling polls, post screening:
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "allow_new_polls" set to: "0" in folder: "This is a category"
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "allow_screening" set to: "0" in folder: "This is a category"
Allowing edit own posts, delete own posts:
action: BoxChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "allow_edits" set to: "1" in folder: "This is a category"
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "allow_deletes" set to: "1" in folder: "This is a category"
Allowing emoticons, avatars, signatures:
action: BoxChanged.
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "allow_emoticons" set to: "1" in folder: "This is a category"
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "allow_avatars" set to: "1" in folder: "This is a category"
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "allow_signatures" set to: "1" in folder: "This is a category"
Enabling polls, post screening:
action: BoxChanged.
message:
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "allow_screening" set to: "1" in folder: "This is a category"
User: Chris W962 updated forum: "Welcome" : "allow_new_polls" set to: "1" in folder: "This is a category"
Miscellaneous.
Mimic forum.
action: BoxMimic
message:
User: Chris W962 has mimicked forum features, reading restrictions, poster permissions, posting permissions, member list from "Welcome" to
"forum two"
Prune forum:
action: BoxPrune
message:
User: Chris W962 has pruned 0 topics before 1-Jul-2008 in forum "games"
Member Management
Individual member management.
Banning a member
action: DomainBan
message:
User: Chris W962 has banned yukupolitan
Unbanning a member:
action: DomainUnban
mesage:
User: Chris W962 has unbanned yukupolitan
Deleting a member:
action: memberDeleted
message:
User: Chris W962 has deleted yukupolitan
Changing forum access permissions (this includes any access, extending or removing access as well as extending the access to moderator level)
action: ForumAccess
message:
User: Chris W962 has changed forum access settings of yukupolitan of "Mod room"
Promoting/demoting:
action: AdminSettings
message:
User: Chris W962 has changed admin settings of yukupolitan
Approving a pending application:
action: memberApproval
message:
User: Chris W962 has approved snowyday
Denying a pending application.
action: memberDeny
message:
User: Chris W962 has denied of Snowyday
Bulk edits
Changing forum access permissions (this includes any access, extending or removing access as well as extending the access to moderator level)
action: ForumAccess
message:
User: Chris W962 has changed forum access settings of 2 users of "Mod room"
Banning several members at once
action: DomainBan
message: User: Chris W962 has banned gypsyshoes, User: Chris W962 has banned snowyday
The actions will be logged individually for each banned member.
Creating Lists
action: groupSettings
message:
User: Chris W962 has changed group settings
Copying a list
action: groupSettings
message:
User: Chris W962 has changed group settings
Approving several pending members at once.
action: memberApproval
message:
User: Chris W962 has approved2 users
Editing various sections of your community.
Editing your info page
Making changes to your info page.
action: infoChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 has changed community info
Editing your security settings page.
Making any change to your security page.
action: securityChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 has changed community security options
Editing your display preferences
Making any changes to your display preferences page.
action: preferencesChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 has changed community preferences settings
Editing labels
Action: labelsChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 has changed community text labels
Editing search page.
editing search settings page.
action: findChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 has changed Yuku Find settings
Editing domain hosting.
Action: HostingChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 has changed domain hosting options
Editing contributor options
(dis) allowing contributions
action: contributorOption
message:
User: Chris W962 disallowed contribution
User: Chris W962 allowed contribution
Ad settings
Changing ad settings
action: adSettings
message:
User: Chris W962 has changed ad settings
Calendar
change calendar options
action: calendarOptionsUpdate
message:
User: Chris W962 has changed calendar options
change group permissions.
action: calendarSecurityUpdate
message:
User: Chris W962 has changed calendar security settings
Customization
Add a skin
action: skinAdded
message:
User: Chris W962 has added new skin "Dancing Horses "
Apply skin:
action: skin applied
Message:
User: Chris W962 has applied skin "Yuku Blue" to community default and all forums
Importing a skin
action: skinImported
message:
User: Chris W962 has imported skin "Yukupolis Aqua II"
Adding smileys
action: smileyChanged
User: Arizona has edited smilies "Becky test"
Importing a smileys set
action: smileyImported
message:
User: Arizona has imported smilies to "Becky test"
Deleting a smileys set
action: smileyDeleted
message:
User: Chris W962 has deleted smilies "Default Smilies"
Importing a posticon set
action: posticonImported
message:
User: Arizona has imported posticons to "becky"
Adding a posticon set:
action: posticonChanged
message:
User: Arizona has edited posticons "becky"
Editing posticon set
action: posticonChanged
message:
User: Chris W962 has edited posticons "Untitled Posticons 03 Jul 2008 01:06:12"
Deleting a posticon set
action: posticonDeleted
message:
User: Chris W962 has deleted posticons "Untitled Posticons 03 Jul 2008 01:06:12"
Adding HTML to a skin
action: skinChanged
message:
User: Arizona has edited images for skin "Yuku Blue"
Using the moderator tools
The descriptions speak for themselves, so I won't be posting them.
Stick topic.
action: leadSticky
Unstick topic.
action: leadUnSticky
Close topic.
action: leadClosed
Re-open topic:
action: leadReOpen
Delete topic:
action: leadDeleted
*Note: All topic deletions are logged. This includes topics deleted by members who don't have mod access (as long as you have topic deletion enabled)
Restore topic.
action: leadRestored
Move topic:
action: leadMoved
Copy topic:
action: leadCopied
Merge topics:
action: leadMerge
Split topic:
action: leadSplit
Hide topic:
action: leadHide
Show topic:
action: leadShow
Feature topic:
action: leadFeatured
Delete/show/hide replies is logged the same way, the only difference is that lead gets substituted with reply.
example:
Hide reply:
action: replyHide
Open poll:
action: pollOpened
Close poll.
action: PollClosed
Hide all posts by 1 user:
action: postsHidden
Show all posts by 1 user:
action: postsShown
