Summarized audit status “bubbles up” to higher level user interfaces within the MIMIX installation. The Work with Data Groups display (WRKDG command) identifies the number of audits within the MIMIX installation that require action or attention. In environments with application groups, the summarized replication status on the Work with Application Groups display (WRKAG command) also includes summarized status of audits within the application group.
Details about audit runtime status and compliance status values are reported on the Work with Audits display (WRKAUD command). The information available about each audit identifies the status of actions performed by its rule, how the audit selected objects for comparison, the audit’s compliance status, policy values which affect the actions of each phase, and scheduling information. When a phase completes, its timestamps and statistics are also available. You can also access output files containing detailed results for each audit.
You can control whether a subset of the audit runtime status values are considered errors, warnings, or informational. This is controlled by the audit severity policy and affects whether those statuses are included when auditing status is rolled up to other status values within a MIMIX instance.
When audit recoveries are enabled, you can control the severity level of the notifications that are returned when the rule ends in error with the Notification severity policy.
You can also view job logs associated with notifications and recoveries. Job logs are accessible from the system on which the audit comparison or recovery job ran.
In environments that distribute data between systems using non-switchable data groups or data groups whose target node is a replicate node of an application group, it is possible to configure data group entries so that attribute differences detected by audits are ignored. When this capability is configured, audits still compare the attributes identified for ignoring. When audits detect differences for those attributes, audits will not perform recovery actions for those attributes or report those differences as errors. For more information, see topic “Ignoring attribute differences in distributed environments” in the Assure MIMIX Administrator Reference book.