Displaying External Audit Trail Status

Prerequisites

• See the General Prerequisites.
• You must have Read or Write rights to the Audit File object Audit Policy property or Read or Write rights to the Audit File object Audit Contents property to display the external audit trail audit status.

Procedure

1. Choose Display Audit Status in menu 2101.

   AUDITCON then displays menu 2200.

   You can invoke this display from various other places in the container audit menu tree. This is a read-only display that presents the audit status for your current external audit trail.

2. Press Esc to return to the calling menu.

   Figure 113
   Menu 2200: Audit Status
   

   The audit status displays the following status information for the current container audit trail:

   Audit Status Information	Description
   Auditing status	Shows as On if auditing is enabled for the selected external audit trail, or Off if auditing is not enabled.
   Audit file size	Shows the size, in bytes, of the current external audit file.
   Audit file size threshold	Shows the configured size at which the server sends warning messages to the server console and system log file.
   Audit file maximum size	Defines the nominal maximum size for the audit file.
   Audit record count	Defines the number of audit records in the current audit file.

This display does not define the complete status of a external audit trail. SeeChanging an External Audit Trail Configuration for more information on viewing and setting the audit configuration.