XYGATE Access Control Reference Manual

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Chapter 7. XAC Auditing and Audit
Reports
Up to nine audit locations can be defined for XAC. The audit information can be written
to diskfiles, processes and IP addresses. The XAC software includes two macros
(XAC_AUDIT_REPORT and XAC_REPORT) that will generate reports from audit
information that is written to an ENSCRIBE file.
7.1 AUDIT File Considerations
This section explains Audit file creation and rollover behavior in XAC.
7.1.1 AUDIT File Creation
There are up to nine audit files available with XYGATEAC. If the optional ACCONFCO
file is being used, the ninth slot if in use, will be overwritten by the ACCONFCO audit.
Any one of these nine available audit file positions may be defined as an NSK
standard file, a process name or an IP address. This section deals with the NSK
standard file or process name form of the audit file specification.
Audit files are defined in the ACCONF and ACCONFCO files. If a filename is defined
and does not exist, XAC will create it with the following default parameters:
TYPE E
EXT(300,300,16)
REC 4000
BLOCK 4096
You can specify different EXTents in your ACCONF file as described in Appendix A3:
AUDIT (Filename) on page 94.
If the audit filename specified is a diskfile, then when an error 45 occurs on the file, the
current file will be closed, renamed, and a new file with the same characteristics will be
created. XAC processing will then continue.
7.1.2 AUDIT File Rollover
If any of the files specified using the AUDIT keyword in the ACCONF file or
ACCONFCO file become unavailable, which might occur if the audit file fills up or is
renamed, the XYGATEAC process will close the current file and attempt to recreate
and re-open the original filename. If the audit file named in the ACCONF entry is still
unavailable, then XYGATEAC will wait and retry the open operation. One error