Enabling your database for auditing creates seven new tables in your database meta-schema. The table below briefly describes each of the tables. The details on the fields and indexes of each of these tables are discussed in OpenEdge Getting Started: Core Business Services - Security and Auditing.

Table 1. Auditing meta-schema tables
Table name Description Archived
_aud-audit-data This table contains the audit data records. All events are stored in this table. Yes
_aud-audit-data-value This table is a child table of the _aud-audit-data table, and contains records for each field change data event. Yes
_aud-audit-policy This table contains named audit policies. If multiple policies are active, the aggregation of the policies is applied, and the highest level of auditing will be applied if a conflict exists between policies. No
_aud-event This table contains the definitions for all supported OpenEdge and user-defined audit events and their event ids. All event ids up to 32,000 are reserved. You can create custom application events with ids greater than 32,000. Yes
_aud-event-policy This table contains policy settings for events associated with policies. No
_aud-field-policy This table contains field level auditing settings associated with a named policy. No
_aud-file-policy This table contains table level auditing settings associated with a named policy. No