Patent ID: 6041420
Filing Date: 2000-03-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
In a fault tolerant computer system having an audit generator, and a configuration management process that rotates storage of audit records generated by said audit generator through a trail of audit files stored on plural disk storage units, wherein after a selected audit file becomes full, audit records stored in the selected audit file are migrated to a long-term storage medium, leaving the selected audit file available to receive further audit trail records from said audit generator, a method for responding to excess generation of audit trail records comprising the steps of:monitoring, using said configuration management process, filling of audit files of said trail with audit records and migration of audit files of said trail to said long-term storage medium; andupon a first threshold percentage of audit files of said trail becoming full without having been migrated to said long-term storage medium, migrating at least one of said full unmigrated audit files to an overflow file on a selected one of the plural disk storage units.