TMF Operations and Recovery Guide (G06.24+)

Audit Dumps

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Pausing and Resuming Audit Dumps

You can use the DISABLE AUDITDUMP and ENABLE AUDITDUMP commands to

control the audit dump process:

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DISABLE AUDITDUMP makes the audit dump process unavailable. This

command does not affect an audit dump in progress.

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ENABLE AUDITDUMP makes the audit dump process available.

The DISABLE AUDITDUMP and ENABLE AUDITDUMP commands can be issued

only by members of the super user group.

You might want to use the DISABLE AUDITDUMP command for the following reasons:

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To make a tape drive available for another purpose.

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To delay audit dumps until a specific time. If you disable audit dumps for this

reason, coordinate the audit dump schedule with the system manager.

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To stop an audit dump in progress because of dump media problems or some

other operational problem. In this case, use the ABRUPT option of the DISABLE

AUDITDUMP command, as described in the TMF Reference Manual.

When you are ready to restart the automatic dumping of audit-trail files, use the

ENABLE AUDITDUMP command.

The following example shows the use of the DISABLE and ENABLE AUDITDUMP

commands. A STATUS AUDITDUMP command is used first, to determine the current

state of the audit dump process:

TMF 10> STATUS AUDITDUMP MAT

AuditDump Status:

Master: State: enabled, Status: inactive

TMF 11> DISABLE AUDITDUMP MAT

TMF 12> STATUS AUDITDUMP MAT

AuditDump Status:

Master: State: disabled, Status: inactive

TMF 13> ENABLE AUDITDUMP MAT

TMF 14> STATUS AUDITDUMP MAT

AuditDump Status:

Master: State: enabled, Status: active, Process: $X618

File: $MAT1.ZTMFAT.AA000021

Caution. You cannot disable audit dumps indefinitely. As transaction processing continues,

additional audit-trail files are used. Eventually, the capacity of the audit trail can exceed the

begin-transaction-disable threshold; if this happens, TMF does not allow new transactions to

start.