Audited Events
The process of examining network transactions to ensure that network records are accurate and secure.
In general, auditing means examining records to make sure that transactions are accurate and that confidential information is secure.
NetWare auditing allows individuals, acting independently of network supervisors and other users, to audit network transactions.
Auditors can audit NDS events as well as those events specific to a volume or a server. Some events you can audit are shown in the following figure.
Figure 1
Audited Events
Auditors can track events and activities on the network, but they don't have rights to open or modify network files (other than the audit data and audit history files), unless they are granted rights by the network supervisor.
Auditing is enabled at the volume level for file system auditing. It is enabled at the container level when auditing NDS events.
NOTE: The Audit program files are installed automatically when you install or upgrade to NetWare 4.
Audit data and history files are automatically created for volumes and containers that have auditing enabled. The files keep records much like a system or error log file. All activity tracked by the auditing utility is recorded.
The audit files continue to accept records until auditing is disabled or the file becomes full.
Related utility: AUDITCON in Utilities Reference .