ENABLING OF AUDIT LOGS

[Former Member]

I enabled audit logging on our SAP Development using transaction sm19 and noticed that the log files residing on the OS file system: /usr/sap/DEV/DVEBMGS00/log growing rather fast.

This is for Development only, If I enable it on Production the growth would probably be faster.

Aside from the fact that the logs eat up a lot of space, will audit logging result to any performance degradation? Does audit logging create additional dialog processes?

Our present setup is rather standard and we cannot provide additional resources as of now.

My machine has 4096 MB memory and speed of 2 Processor Power PC_Power4 1 GB

[Former Member]

To enable audit log, you should consider 2 SAP parameter :

1. rsau/enable

and

2. rsau/max_diskspace/local (default value 1 MB)

For local diskspace you can limit it. I think SAP audit log would have impact on your server performance because every transaction has additional process and consume CPU and memory resource.

Please award point if it helpful.

ardhian

[Former Member]

the note did not answer my question regarding additional dialog processes that audit logging might spawn.

[Former Member]

Hi,

From SM19 and with profile parameters (rsau/*) you can tune your audit logging.

Please, read OSS note 539404. There you'll find a lot of answers.

Regards,

JC Llanes.