If you have an application that does not have its own auditing functionality, you can upgrade the application to use OpenEdge auditing.
To upgrade the application to use OpenEdge auditing, follow these general steps:
1. Use PROUTIL to upgrade your OpenEdge database products to OpenEdge Release 10.1.
2. Use PROUTIL to enable and configure your OpenEdge database's auditing tables.
3. Use Audit Policy Maintenance to import any predefined auditing policies for each of the auditing enabled databases.
4. Optionally, use Audit Policy Maintenance to import your application-defined auditing event definitions into the OpenEdge databases.
5. Use Audit Policy Maintenance to configure one or more audit policies to satisfy the end-customers needs.
6. Use Audit Policy Maintenance to configure one or more audit policies that your databases will employ at run time.
7. Use Data Administration to configure your databases auditing security settings. For more information, see the Data Administration Help.
8. Optionally, use the command-line tools to automate archiving from short-term to long-term storage.
9. Upgrade the database clients to OpenEdge Release 10.1.
Changes in audit policy settings used by the OpenEdge database engine take effect immediately. Changes to audit policy settings for ABL or SQL database clients are picked up on the next new connection.
You can archive and/or record application audit data to any local- or network-accessible OpenEdge database.
