interfaces for submission of events. Such events can be denoted as auditable using configuration options at the CEI server, in which case CEI stores them in a CEI XML event store that meets the auditing requirements described previously. The Common Auditing and Reporting Service component allows staging of data from the CEI XML event store into report tables. IBM products and customers can provide audit reports based on auditable events staged into such report tables. The Common Auditing and Reporting Service component also supports the lifecycle of auditable events, including archive, restore, and audit reports on restored archives. It enables common reporting against auditable events from different products and sources. The first release of the Audit Infrastructure delivered by the IBM Tivoli Common Auditing and Reporting Service is used by the Access Manager for e-business product for submitting, storing, and reporting auditable security events. Archiving and restoring audit data The relational database schema of the CEI XML event store is externalized so the audit data stored in it can be archived by customers using third-party archival tools of their choice. The Common Auditing and Reporting Service provides an XML store utility that aids customers in archiving and restoring audit data. Also, the Common Auditing and Reporting Service supports staging of restored audit data into report tables so that audit reports can be run against restored audit