Event History report

NOTE  Depending on the Absolute product licenses associated with your user role, the Event History report may not be available.

You can use the Event History report to see a history of the devices on which one or more of the following Device Action requests were submitted, depending on the device's operating system:

Operating system

Device Action requests

Windows

All new, pending, and completed:

  • Freeze and Remove Freeze requests
  • Offline Freeze rules
  • Manage Supervisor Password requests
  • Script requests and Cancel Script requests

Mac

All new, pending, and completed:

  • Freeze and Remove Freeze requests
  • Offline Freeze rules
  • Script requests and Cancel Script requests

Android

All new, pending, and completed Freeze and Remove Freeze requests

Chromebook

By default, the report shows information about all requests that have changed status in the past seven (7) days, but you can update the report's filters to show more or less data.

Example

A user submitted a Freeze request for a device yesterday and the request is now processed. Two events will show on the page: one dated yesterday with a status of Freeze Requested and a newer one with a status of Frozen. The Event ID for both events is the same.

You can access this report from the Events category on the Reports page.

The Event History report applies to devices running any supported operating system.

By default, the following filters are used to generate this report:

Agent Status is Active and

Event Status Date and Time within last 7 Days and

Event Status is not empty

You can also create a customized version of the report by adding filters based on one or more filter criteria. For example, you can filter the report to show only those Freeze requests submitted by a particular user.

The information collected from each device is organized in the following columns:

Information on the Event History report

Column

Description

Identifier The unique Electronic Serial Number (ESN) assigned to the Absolute agent that is installed on a device.

To view all requests for a particular device, click its linked device identifier to open the device's Event History page.

Event Status

For request type ...

The field shows ...

Freeze / Remove Freeze / Offline Freeze

Status of the request or rule

Manage Supervisor Password

Status of a Manage Supervisor Password request
Run Script / Cancel Script requests Status of a Run Script or Cancel Script request

Event Details > Script Return Code

This column applies to Script events only

The code returned after the script runs on the device

For Script events with an Event Status of Script Requested or Script Processing, this column shows — —.

Return codes can be specified in the script, but they are not mandatory. Typically a return code of zero (0) indicates that the script was executed successfully.

Event Details

For request type ...

The field shows ...

Freeze / Remove Freeze / Offline Freeze

Freeze details associated with the request or rule

Manage Supervisor Password

Details about a failed request
Run Script / Cancel Script requests Script details associated with the request

Event Requested By

The username of the user who submitted the request

Event Status Date and Time

The date and time when the status of the request changed

Username Username of the user who was logged in to the device when an agent connection occurred. If no user was logged in during the most recent agent connection, the last detected username shows. If you are viewing a report and want to see if a user was logged in during the most recent connection, add the Current Username column to the report. If no user was logged in at the time of the connection, "No Data" or two em dashes (— —) show in the column.

The username detected on the device at the last agent connection

Event ID

The system assigned identifier for the request

By default, the report data is sorted by Event Status Date and Time, in descending order. You can change the sort order by clicking a column heading.

Depending on the Absolute licenses associated with your account, and your user role, you may be able to perform some or all of the following tasks on the Event History report: