To Start the Audit Manager (deprecated)

Note: Audit Manager is deprecated and provided for backward compatibility only. We recommend that you use syslog events instead. See Enterprise Server Auditing for more information.

Restriction: This topic applies only when the Enterprise Server feature is enabled.

Syntax:

Use this command to start the Audit Manager.

mfauditmgr [-c cfg-file] [-n name]

Parameters:

cfg-file

Specifies the name of the configuration file that is to be used for defining which emitters are to be enabled etc.

If no configuration file is specified, the audit event consolidator instance is configured as follows:

Shared memory is used as the IPC mechanism.
The Secure file emitter only is enabled, with the following characteristics:
- Audit file collection size of 5.
- Maximum size of each audit file in the collection is 20MB.
The timeout period for sending events is set to zero; that is, no timeout period is in effect.
Location in which the audit files are created is set using the environment variable MFAUDIT_LOGS.

name

Specifies the name of the audit event consolidator instance. This is the name that applications will use to communicate with this audit event consolidator instance.

If this option is not specified, the machine name is used.