XYGATE Compliance PRO (XSW) Reference Manual
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Chapter 12. XSW Auditing and Audit Reporting
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12.2.2 Audit Diskfile Creation and Rollover
Auditing to a diskfile is the most commonly used audit configuration. Auditing to an
Enscribe diskfile makes it possible to generate reports using the host reporting macros
or the XYGATE Report Manager (XRM). To get this and other XYPRO documents,
refer to the section “Additional XYPRO Reference Manuals” in this manual.
If a disk file name is specified for the audit file and no file exists, a new file is created
with the following format, (although you can specify different extents in your SWCONF
file).
Default Audit Diskfile Format
TYPE E
EXT(300,300)
REC 4000
BLOCK 4096
MAXEXTENTS 16
XSW Audit trail rollover occurs when the audit diskfile fills up. When XSW is unable to
write an audit message to the audit diskfile because there is not enough room left (that
is, it received an error 45 while writing), it renames the current audit diskfile and
creates a new file. The full audit diskfile is renamed using the first-three characters of
the current file’s name followed by a five-digit sequence number. A new file is created
with the original name and the same format as the original file. Processing continues.
The filenames continue to increment each time a new audit file is created.
$SYSTEM XYGATESW 1> fi aud*
CODE EOF LAST MODIFIED OWNER RWEP PExt SExt
AUD00001 3333 9830400 16JAN2012 13:39 232,28 NUUU 300 300
AUD00002 3333 9830400 17JAN2012 14:58 232,28 NUUU 300 300
AUD00003 3333 9830400 18JAN2012 15:06 232,28 NUUU 300 300
AUDIT 3333 57344 16MAR2012 15:00 232,28 NUUU 300 300
Note: When renaming the AUDIT files manually (for resize, etc), one may need to
know how to check what the next AUD##### should be. Below are the steps for
getting such information:
1.Volume to the installation subvolume
2.Run XXX INSTALL to attach the segment
3.#OUTPUT [XXX_NEXTGEN AUD]
Example:
>VOLUME $WORK.XYGATESW
>RUN XSW INSTALL
>#OUTPUT [XSW_NEXTGEN AUD]
12.3 Audit Collection
Each time an auditable event occurs, XSW creates an audit record and adds it to the
configured audit trail(s). This section documents the format of that record. This is
observable by looking at the host audit trail.