Overview Of Audit Installation - Sybase Adaptive Server Configuration Manual

Adding auditing
The sybsecurity
device and database
Tables and devices for
the audit trail
Device for syslogs
systems table

Overview of audit installation

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• The audit trail, which consists of several audit devices and tables that you
determine at configuration time
• The syslogs transaction log device, which stores transaction logs
The sybsecurity device stores the
database is created as part of the auditing configuration process. It contains all
the system tables in the
track of server-wide auditing options and system tables for the audit trail.
Adaptive Server stores the audit trail in system tables, named
through . At any given time, only one of the audit tables is current.
sysaudits_08
Adaptive Server writes all audit data to the current audit table. A System
Security Officer can use
current.
When you configure Adaptive Server for auditing, you determine the number
of audit tables for your installation. You can specify up to eight system tables
( through
sysaudits_01
tables for the audit trail and to put each system table on its own device, separate
from the master device. If you do this, you can use a threshold procedure that
archives the current audit table automatically, before it fills up and switches to
a new, empty table for subsequent audit records.
During auditing configuration, you must specify a separate device for the
system table, which contains the transaction log. The
syslogs
which exists in every database, contains a log of transactions that are executed
in the database.
There are two methods for installing auditing for the first time in Adaptive
Server:
• Use the
installsecurity
Administration Guide.
• Use the utility. Tasks that you must perform before installing
auditinit
auditing and instructions on using the
sybsecurity
database, as well as a system table for keeping
model
to set or change which audit table is
sp_configure
). Plan to use at least two or three system
sysaudits_08
script. For information, see the System
auditinit
database. The
sybsecurity
sysaudits_01
syslogs
utility follow.
Adaptive Server Enterprise
table,