TMF Operations and Recovery Guide (G06.26+)

Routine Maintenance
HP NonStop TMF Operations and Recovery Guide—522417-003
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Displaying Audit-Trail Activity
Table 2-1. Understanding the STATUS AUDITTRAIL Display (page 1 of 2)
Audit-Trail Status Meaning
Master | Auxiliarynn The audit-trail name. If the name is followed by the message
“Overflow space in use,” the active-audit volumes for this audit trail
have exceeded the overflow threshold. See Responding to Audit-
Trail Overflow on page 3-5 for information on how to proceed.
Active-audit trail
capacity used
The percentage of the audit trail that is full.
First pinned file
Reason
The name of the oldest file that must remain on disk, followed by the
reason the file cannot yet be reused or purged from disk. The next
section explains why audit-trail files remain on an active or overflow-
audit volume.
Files | Current file
(file status,
dump status)
The names of the active, preallocated, overflow, and restored files in
the audit trail. If the DETAIL option is not entered in the STATUS
AUDITTRAIL command, then only the current audit-trail file is shown
here.
The status of the audit-trail file and the file’s dump status are shown
in parentheses after the file name:
File Status (Active)—Active audit-trail files that precede the current file contain
audit records needed for transactions in progress or, potentially, for
use by volume recovery or a TMF restart. An active audit-trail file
that is in sequence after the current file becomes the next current
file. These files contain no audit records.
(Available)—The file is no longer needed for transactions in
progress, volume recovery, or TMF restart. If audit dumping is
configured, the file has been dumped: it can be reused when the
current file gets full.
(Overflow)—Overflow files are like active files, but have been copied
to an overflow-audit volume. This happens when the space
consumed by active audit-trail files exceeds the overflow threshold
configured for the audit trail.
(Overflowing)—The file is being copied to an overflow-audit volume.
(Preallocated)—Preallocated files are “placeholders” used to
guarantee that disk space configured for the audit trail is not
consumed by other applications. A preallocated file becomes an
active file when TMF selects it to be a new audit-trail file.
(Prepared)—The active audit-trail file has been renamed, and will be
the next file to receive audit records.
(Restored)—The file has been restored to a restore-audit volume for
use by volume recovery or file recovery, or by an application that
reads audit records.
(Restoring)—The file is being restored to a restore-audit volume.
Dump Status (Current)—The file is currently receiving audit records, so it is not
ready to be dumped.