Showing posts with label Unified Auditing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unified Auditing. Show all posts
Friday, March 11, 2022

What constitute "default auditing" under Unified Auditing?

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Under Mixed-mode auditing and Pure Unified Auditing, the policies ORA_SECURECONFIG and ORA_LOGON_FAILURES are audited by default. From the...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

How to create a unfied auditing policy that captures logons from privileged users

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By default, only unsuccessful logon attempts are audited by mandatory auditing under Unified Auditing . The policy used for this purpose i...

How to use dbms_metadata to generate DDL for a Unified Auditing Policy

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SQL> set long 5000 SQL> select DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('AUDIT_POLICY','ORA_LOGON_FAILURES') from dual; DBMS_METADATA...
Friday, January 8, 2021

Comparison between default traditional auditing and default unified auditing

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Applicable to Oracle Database versions 12.1 and onwards. By default, the databases are created with "Mixed-Mode" auditing enable...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

What constitute "mandatory auditing" under Unified Auditing?

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Activities from administrative users such as SYSDBA, SYSBACKUP, and SYSKM.   The following audit-related activities are mandatorily audite...
Monday, March 16, 2020

How to modify a unified auditing policy to make exceptions based on login information

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The audit policy had been created as follows: create audit policy all_select_policy actions select; Here is how you can alter an existing...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Why is Oracle producing .aud files for internal sys-statements?

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I have recently been in contact with Oracle support regarding an issue where my Oracle 18c database instance is sending audit information ...
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Thursday, April 11, 2019

How to manuall purge your unified auditing audit trail

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This is how I purged my unified audit trail on an Oracle 12.2 instance. The procedure has also been tested in a 19c instance. First, chec...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

How to create a unified auditing policy

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For example, create a policy to audit the "create session" privilege: create audit policy audit_cre_session privileges create...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Roles necessary to administer and view the Unified Audit Trail

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Oracle 12c provides two new roles for auditing purposes: AUDIT_ADMIN for audit configuration/administration AUDIT_VIEWER for viewing an...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

How to toggle between "Mixed mode" Auditing, Traditional Auditing and Unified Auditing

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This article is applicable to Oracle database versions 12.1 and onwards. For newly created databases, mixed mode auditing is enabled by d...

How to check if Unified Auditing is enabled in your database

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Check that Unified Auditing is enabled with the following query: col parameter format a20 col value format a20 set lines 200 select param...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

How to find the currently enabled unified auditing policies

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Oracle 12c comes with two auditing policies enabled by default: ORA_SECURECONFIG and ORA_LOGON_FAILURES. You can find the currently enabl...