The Adabas database administrator uses Adabas Manager to define which files should be audited.
A profile describes what an auditor is subscribing to.
Filter options contain rules for including and excluding records for auditing.
While it processes the commands that request access to the database, the Adabas nucleus sends the data of all files being audited to the Adabas Audit Server.
Adabas Audit Server writes formatted audit data to datasets as a sequential log.
Each audited file has an audit ID. The audit ID is a timestamp which uniquely identifies a comination of audited fields.
The unique audit ID is assigned to an 8-digit audit ID name by the database administrator.
Metadata for the fields is included in the ALOG dataset. All extracted records that are based on a specific subscription have the same field structure.
The AAR reader program imports the generated audit log (ALOG) datasets into Adabas Audit Data Retrieval for indexing.
Indexed data is available for retrieval by the Adabas Audit Data Viewer (AAV) component.