Implementation
The Audit Processor component runs in a dedicated virtual machine and writes to the audit log on behalf of audit event messages transmitted by one or more Initiators.
The Initiator(s) and the Processor communicate using shared dataspaces (or using IUCV if dataspace support is not available).
Data Compression
With VM/ESA Version 2 installed, SQL/AF may be requested to use data compression when writing to the audit log. With data compression, the disk space required for the log will be significantly reduced.