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Reporting Over Extended Periods Using the System Management Facility (SMF)

The records written to the IPLOG Events database can be written to SMF.

Records written to SMF can be analyzed by IBM and third-party products such as SLR and SAS.

The SMF can store detail data on individual events in active SMF records and offline SMF archives. Depending on your organization's requirements, this data can be kept for extended periods, and used for audit and capacity planning.

Note: For information about how to enable SMF logging, see the Installation Guide. For information about the SMF record format produced by your region, see the Administration Guide.

To access these records, you can customize and use your preferred SMF reporting facilities such as: