Auditing OpenEdge databases or clients earlier than Release 10.1

You can upgrade an OpenEdge Release 10.0 (or later) database to support auditing.

An OpenEdge or Progress client earlier than Release 10.1 will be unable to connect to an audit-enabled Release 10.1 OpenEdge database. The reason for this is that when you audit-enable a database, you add audit tables to the database. When the client communicates with the database, the database requires the client to be aware that auditing is enabled. In other words, the client must be audit-aware. Pre-Release 10.1 clients are unaware of auditing, so the connection is disabled.

If a database is audit-enabled, and later auditing is disabled, a pre-Release 10.1 client will then be able to connect to the database after the contents of the audit tables are entirely deleted.