SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition

Initiating and Reading Audit Trails

Overview

You initiate an audit trail using the DATASETS procedure with the AUDIT and INITIATE statements.

General form, DATASETS procedure to initiate an audit trail: PROC DATASETS LIB=libref <NOLIST>; AUDIT SAS-data-set <SAS-password>; INITIATE; QUIT; Here is an explanation of the syntax: AUDIT initiates and controls event logging to an audit file. libref is the name of the library where the data set to be audited resides. NOLIST suppresses the directory listing. SAS-data-set is the name of the SAS data set that you want to audit. SAS-password is the SAS data set password, if one exists. INITIATE begins the audit trail on the data set specified in the AUDIT statement. ...