Archive Security Logs

Use the Archive Security Logs console action to archive the Hardware Management Console's default security log.

Archiving the security log is a means of long-term storage of security events.

Archiving saves the default security log's event data in another file on a DVD-RAM, then erases enough events from the log to reduce its size to 20% of its maximum capacity.

Consider archiving a hardware management console's security log before its current size reaches 100% of its maximum capacity. Otherwise, if you allow the security log to reach it maximum capacity, the oldest one-third of its events will be erased automatically to allow logging new events.

Note: When you use the View Security Logs console action to view the console's default security log, its current size is displayed (as a percentage of its maximum capacity) near the bottom of the View Security Logs window.

Insert in the console's DVD drive a DVD-RAM that is formatted with either no volume label or a volume label of ACTSECLG.