About the Audit Manager (deprecated)

Note: Audit Manager is deprecated and provided for backward compatibility only. We recommend that you use syslog events instead. See Enterprise Server Auditing for more information.

Restriction: This topic applies only when the Enterprise Server feature is enabled.

The Audit Manager can collect audit events generated by MFDS and by the SEPs running in an Enterprise Server installation. It can either write the information to a set of secure files, or output the information as SNMP events.

In a Windows environment, you can run the Audit Manager as a service. To install and configure the Micro Focus Audit Manager service, see To Install the Audit Event Consolidator as a Service (Windows only).
- If it's not already running, you can start this service from the Windows Services dialog box, or with the command:
```
net start mfauditmgr
```
- For flexibility, you can also run the Audit Manager directly, by running the mfauditmgr program located in %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Micro Focus\Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2013\bin and \bin64 .
In a UNIX environment, you can run the Audit Manager service as a daemon.

You can configure Audit Manager behaviour using a configuration file. You specify this configuration file with the -c <filename> option.

You can log auditable events to file, or as SNMP events. With SMMP, you can use SNMP management software to analyze the events.

The Audit Manager provides a utility, and APIs, that you can use to generate reports from the audit files that the system generates. The Audit Manager also provides APIs with which you can perform operations such as customizing logging destinations, and configuring your applications to generate audit events.