If you use both Audit Trails and Electronic Signatures functions, use these fields to control whether audit trail data and archived signature records are stored in separate databases. When both fields are Yes, the system uses this database for both data types. Otherwise, you can choose to set up and administer a separate database for each function.

Enter the date when the system should begin saving the specified type of information to the audit database identified by this connection record. Connection records become effective at 12:00 AM on the indicated date.

Setting Database Online to Yes does not start an audit database; it simply indicates that the system is allowed to save or retrieve information for the audit database. This assumes that the database has already been configured and started outside of the system. The Begin Date must correspond to a date when the indicated database is already online; otherwise, the system reports connection errors. New audit trail creation processes cannot be launched if the system cannot connect to the current audit database. This is also true of electronic signature archive and restore activities.

This value cannot be updated manually. It is automatically updated when the system begins storing information of the specified type in a new audit database.