Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Getting Started:
New and Revised Features

> ## Auditing

> OpenEdge Release 10.1A introduces a new core business service—auditing. Auditing features allow you to do the following:

> - Audit database create, update, and delete events without using schema triggers.

> - Audit internal events such as schema changes, audit policy changes, database connections, authentication (login, logout), or archiving.

> - Audit application-defined events, typically for events with no corresponding database operation.

> - Use a common auditing approach for Progress 4GL, SQL, and database utilities.

> - Securely create and manage highly configurable audit policies that can be aggregated at run time and deployed.

> - Leverage Audit Policy Maintenance, which is a new audit policy tool, and/or write your own utility using open API.

> - Support nonrepudiation of audit data by physically preventing updates and sealing audit data to prevent tampering both inside and outside an OpenEdge RDBMS.

> - Create separation of audit administration duties by setting up appropriate privileges.

> - Deny blank user ID access to the OpenEdge RDBMS.

> - Separate audit security to restrict who has access to the audit data records and who can archive, load, and remove them.

> - Assert the user ID to use for auditing from external authentication systems (not dependent on `_User`).

> - Enable optional run-time checking of OpenEdge RDBMS table and field permissions.

> - Tune auditing through audit policy, index deactivation, archiving, and the use of separate audit storage areas.

> - Optionally group audit data by user-defined group events and/or user- defined application context.

> - Query audit data through standard query mechanisms (for example, ProDataSets).

> - Leverage fast (binary) audit archiving capability and/or write your own audit data archive utility.

> For more information, see:

> Manuals: | OpenEdge Getting Started: Core Business Services OpenEdge Data Management: Database Administration OpenEdge Data Management: SQL Development OpenEdge Data Management: SQL Reference OpenEdge Deployment: Managing 4GL Applications OpenEdge Development: Basic Database Tools OpenEdge Development: Programming Interfaces OpenEdge Development: Progress 4GL Reference
> HTML online help: | Audit Policy Maintenance

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