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title: "Viewing audit messages from a live audit connection"
slug: "oas-av-csh-viewing-audit-messages-from-a-live-audit-connection-3-28"
updated: 2025-07-04T10:04:37Z
published: 2025-07-07T14:09:26Z
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# Viewing audit messages from a live audit connection

The live connection audit method allows you to view audit messages in real time via the Audit Viewer application.

To set up a live audit connection in Audit Viewer

1. Start the Audit Viewer application.
2. Select File > New Audit Source > Server.

The New Audit Source – Server dialog appears (see [New Audit Source – Server (dialog)](/sec/docs/oas-av-csh-new-audit-source-server-dialog-3-28)).
3. Enter a descriptive display name for the audit source within Audit Viewer.
4. Enter the IP address of the OneSpan Authentication Server instance.
5. Enter the port on which the OneSpan Authentication Server instance listens for live audit connections.
6. If the live connection is SSL-secured (i.e. Enable SSL was selected when setting up the Add Live Connection Method in OneSpan Authentication Server), you need to configure Audit Viewer to connect via SSL:
  1. Select Enable SSL.
  2. Browse to the path of the server certificate file and enter the corresponding password.
  3. Browse to the path of the client certificate file.
7. Click OK.

If both, the OneSpan Authentication Server instance and the Audit Viewer application, are installed on the same computer during installation (e.g. during a basic installation), then a default live audit connection is automatically set up in Audit Viewer. The display name used by that live audit connection is IAS on Local Machine.