Audit Trail sm19 and sm20

[Former Member]

Dear all,

Please guide me what happens if we activate the audit trail,i.e what will be the system performance.

wat are the advantages and disadvantages by activating the audit trail.

we are planning to activate audit trail.

[former_member1061482]

Security audit log should not have a bad impact on system performance..

The audit logs are local logs maintained on each application server. The system maintains its audit logs on a daily basis and you have to archive or delete the log files manually. This way, you can refer to logs from previous days and the time frame for available logs is increased.

For more information you can refer to the following links:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/b6/d6af7f6bc011d1a56c0000e835363f/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/68/c9d8375bc4e312e10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm

Thanks!

[Former Member]

There should not be any performance issues. The only possible issue is disk space for the audit logs - I have had over 2 years of data without any issues.

[Former Member]

There is NO disadvantage..Please activate the Audit trail. I guess the maximum is for 3 months on my system

Go ahead and do it !

Thanks

Edited by: george G on Apr 30, 2008 6:27 PM

[Former Member]

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> There is NO disadvantage..Please activate the Audit trail. I guess the maximum is for 3 months on my system

There can be a performance impact if you have a poorly sized system which is definitely a disadvantage.

[Former Member]

I think usage of badly written programs or queries on huge tables will have a noticable performance impact longgggggggg before any security audit log, SNC,...

Cheers,

Julius