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Auditing Database

The CMS acts as the system auditor; the BusinessObjects Enterprise server that you monitor is the auditee.

As the auditor, the CMS controls the overall audit process. Each server writes audit records to a log file local to the server. At regular intervals, the CMS communicates with the auditee servers to request copies of records from the auditee’s local log files. When the CMS receives these records it writes data from the log files to the central auditing database.

The CMS also controls the synchronization of audit actions that occur on different computers. Each auditee provides a time stamp for the audit actions that it records in its log file. To ensure that the time stamps of actions on different servers are consistent, the CMS periodically broadcasts its system time to the auditees. The auditees then compare this time to their internal clocks. If differences exist, the auditees correct the time stamps that are recorded in their log files for subsequent audit actions.

Notes:

• You must configure the auditing database on the CMS before you can begin to audit.
• The CMS acts as both an auditor and as an auditee when you configure it to audit an action that the CMS controls.
• In a CMS cluster, the cluster assigns the first CMS to start to act as a system auditor. If the computer that is running this CMS fails, another CMS from the cluster takes over and begins acting as the auditor.