The AUDITFILE emitter is used by the audit consolidation process to write audit records to a collection of audit files. The maximum size of each audit file and the number of audit files in a collection is configurable. However, there is always a minimum of two files defined for each collection.
The emitter only writes to one file in a collection at any given time. Once that file has reached its maximum size, it is closed and the next file in the collection opened and written to. Once all files in the collection have been written, the emitter will attempt to re-use the first file in the collection. This attempt will be denied if the contents of the audit file have not been dumped (see Dumping Audit Files).