Audit Collector
The audit collector is a management server with the audit collector feature installed on it. This component receives security event data from the audit forwarders and inserts the data into the audit collection database.
The most important resource on an audit collection is the CPU; however, audit collection servers do not typically require high-end hardware.
Factors that impact the audit collector include the following:
• Volume of data collection
• Level of audit logging
• Number of domain controller audit forwarders
Ultimately, the audit collector is a management server. Operations Manager can support a maximum of 3,000 Windows agents or 500 UNIX/Linux agents per audit collector. There is only one audit collector per audit database. ...
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