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Customizing Audit Messages

Data Transport Service administrators can customize messages for common events, such as the failure of a DTS agent or Transfer Object Server or a transfer job aborting. Any message that you customize replaces the corresponding default message that Data Transport Service issues under the same conditions.

For example, before customization, if the Network Object Server fails during normal operation, Data Transport Service sends the event to the Common Application Framework (CAF), which forwards a default "Network Object Server failure" message to the Network Object Server log file and the console. However, if you customize the NOS_FAILURE policy with an audit token in the Audit policy group in the DSM Explorer, then Data Transport Service sends your customized message instead of the default message to the console.

Thus, customized messages provide administrators with increased flexibility for handling errors. For example, if the Network Object Server resides on a machine at your site that is known to occasionally freeze and needs to be restarted, you might add that fact to the text of your customized message.

The messages you can customize are restricted to the audit tokens available in the DSM Explorer. The audit tokens apply to transfers, transfer jobs, and the servers and agents.

Note: Audit messages and macros are supplied with Data Transport Service r2 and r3. Also, you cannot customize other messages issued by Data Transport Service, including those regarding the protocols, filters, encryption, or operating system used in the transfer.

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