Only a user with audit data archiver permission can audit archive and audit load audit tables, using the Audit Archive utility supplied by OpenEdge (or a self-designed archive tool). If an audit data archive file is altered in any way, you cannot load it. The archive and audit load operations themselves are audited to track the audit data archiver who performed the archive and archive load operations.

Note that the audit administrator can read but not archive or audit load the audit data. The audit data archiver must maintain the audit data.