How can we easily remove the Designer portal for production system hardening? T

You could do two things:

1. Enable DEBUG mode for the following logger

log4j.logger.com.appiancorp.ix=DEBUG

2. Enable the access log in JBoss by un-commenting the following element in <JBOSS_HOME>\\server\\all\\deploy\\jbossweb.sar\\server.xml if using Appian 7.0 and older:

Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".log"
pattern="common" directory="${jboss.server.log.dir}"
resolveHosts="false" />


With these two things you will know when an import takes place:

1. The application server log will show you when an import complete

2013-08-08 05:12:04,925 INFO [STDOUT] (http-0.0.0.0-8080-4) 2013-08-08 05:12:04,925 [http-0.0.0.0-8080-4] DEBUG com.appiancorp.ix.diagnostics.Diagnostics - application _a-0000d78f-53c2-8000-ac7a-680000680000_476 180 Post-transport update done.

2. The access log will show the attempt to do the import

127.0.0.1 - - [08/Aug/2013:05:12:05 +0000] "POST /suite/applications/importApplications.bg?%24e=asiDialog&appian_mp_csrf=1dcb54c4-db85-4205-83f5-176faaf8dcee&appian_environment=designer HTTP/1.1" 200 4681
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Aug/2013:05:12:07 +0000] "POST /suite/framework/backgroundAction.none?appian_environment=designer HTTP/1.1" 200 49435

3. The login-audit.csv gives you an idea of what users were accessing

2013-08-08 05:11:35,Administrator,Succeeded,127.0.0.1,

You could do two things:

1. Enable DEBUG mode for the following logger

log4j.logger.com.appiancorp.ix=DEBUG

2. Enable the access log in JBoss by un-commenting the following element in <JBOSS_HOME>\\server\\all\\deploy\\jbossweb.sar\\server.xml if using Appian 7.0 and older:

Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".log"
pattern="common" directory="${jboss.server.log.dir}"
resolveHosts="false" />


With these two things you will know when an import takes place:

1. The application server log will show you when an import complete

2013-08-08 05:12:04,925 INFO [STDOUT] (http-0.0.0.0-8080-4) 2013-08-08 05:12:04,925 [http-0.0.0.0-8080-4] DEBUG com.appiancorp.ix.diagnostics.Diagnostics - application _a-0000d78f-53c2-8000-ac7a-680000680000_476 180 Post-transport update done.

2. The access log will show the attempt to do the import

127.0.0.1 - - [08/Aug/2013:05:12:05 +0000] "POST /suite/applications/importApplications.bg?%24e=asiDialog&appian_mp_csrf=1dcb54c4-db85-4205-83f5-176faaf8dcee&appian_environment=designer HTTP/1.1" 200 4681
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Aug/2013:05:12:07 +0000] "POST /suite/framework/backgroundAction.none?appian_environment=designer HTTP/1.1" 200 49435

3. The login-audit.csv gives you an idea of what users were accessing

2013-08-08 05:11:35,Administrator,Succeeded,127.0.0.1,