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File Auditing and Database Auditing Modes

The following information applies to file auditing and database auditing modes:

• Database auditing writes transaction records directly to the database, while file auditing writes to the Siebel File System. You can later import these files into the database. (See To import audit trail items from a file into the Siebel database.) You can schedule import batch processes for these files using workflow processes. (See the ImportAll method in Table 13.)
• If you use file auditing mode, you have to import files into the database to have a comprehensive view and to be able to query for the information you need. Otherwise, you can view records only on a file-by-file basis.
• For systems in which every user is a connected user, file auditing mode yields better performance. Systems using Siebel Remote should use database auditing.
• Purging and archiving can be done at the database level.