TMF Planning and Configuration Guide (G06.24+)

Reconfiguring Audit Trails
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Increasing Audit-Trail Throughput
active-audit volume. When the additional audit-trail space is no longer needed, you
can reduce the audit trail to its original size.
In addition, TMF has an autoabort threshold based on a configurable transaction
timeout value. Use of the autoabort threshold is described in Controlling Transaction
Duration (Autoabort) on page 4-1 and Avoiding Runaway Transactions on page 4-2.
Increasing Audit-Trail Throughput
There are two situations in which disk head contention could arise and affect TMF
performance:
1. During audit dumping, if there is only one active-audit volume
2. During file recovery, if a restore-audit volume and active-audit volume are
configured on the same physical disk drive
For the first type of contention, you can either manually defer audit dumping to a later
time with a DISABLE AUDITDUMP command (as described in Pausing and Resuming
Audit Dumping on page 5-9) or add another active volume with an ADD AUDITTRAIL
command. As explained earlier under Number of Active-Audit Volumes on page 3-4,
multiple active-audit volumes are used in alternating sequence for greater efficiency.
For the second type of contention, you can use an ALTER AUDITTRAIL command to
move the restore-audit volume to a disk drive other than the one containing the active-
audit volume.
Moving Active-Audit Volumes
Assume that you originally configured the master audit trail with one active-audit
volume on the disk drive $TM01, and now you want to move the audit trail from $TM01
to the disk drive $TM02. You could do so by using ALTER AUDITTRAIL commands to
first add $TM02 as a new active-audit volume for the MAT, and then delete $TM01 as
an active-audit volume.
$TM02 becomes the active-audit volume, and $TM01 is marked as “deleting” (it
remains in the deleting state until all of the audit-trail files on it have been dumped).
Although marked as deleting, $TM01 can immediately be used for other purposes—for
example, as a data volume.
Moving Data Volumes
As you gain experience with your application workload, you might need to load balance
your configuration by reassigning a data volume to another audit trail or by moving it to
another processor in your system.
To optimize the assignment of data volumes to audit trails, you should first gather
statistics about the major transactions in your application workload and which volumes