Audit file (card management)

Description

An audit file is a text file with data about smart cards that are about to be delivered to the PTO. The file is made by the card supplier and provided to the PTO before the cards are delivered.

The card supplier has to provide an audit file for each box with cards he delivers to the PTO. If he delivers a carton with four boxes, he thus has to provide four audit files.

Information

For each card in the box for which the audit file is valid, the file contains the following information:

• The stock number and the chip number of the card
• A time stamp that indicates when the card was prepersonalized
• The serial number of the SAM that was used to prepersonalize the card
• The number of the purchase order

Purpose

Audit files are used to import basic card data in the Card Management module. Like this, the cards are already known in Card Management by the time they are delivered.