This topic gives you an example of how auditing is accomplished using the DCE Audit Service. Both the programmer and the administrator have to perform tasks to enable the writing of audit records in the audit trail. This topic looks at the life cycle of an audit trail, from the time that audit events are identified in the server code, to the time that they are filtered and recorded in the audit trail file.
A bank server example illustrates each stage of the life cycle. In this example, the bank server program offers five operations: acct_open( ), acct_close( ), acct_withdraw( ), acct_deposit( ), and acct_transfer( ).
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