RE: [External] Moving from database to OS audit trail

1. Setting audit_trail = XML creates xml audit entries under audit_file_dest location and so it shows with v$ view. It does not create audit entries in syslog directory (in this case it is under /app/oracle/diag/syslog). But since audit_sys_operations = TRUE, all sys operations (i.e. local) are stored in the syslog file

setting 2 -

audit_file_dest                      string      /app/oracle/diag/adump
audit_sys_operations                 boolean     TRUE
audit_syslog_level                   string      LOCAL7.INFO
audit_trail                          string      XML, EXTENDED
unified_audit_sga_queue_size         integer     1048576

1. ran 'create user....' and i see the record in the syslog file (under /app/oracle/diag/syslog), but not in the XML file under audit_file_dest and not in the v$ view
2. ran 'drop user....' and i see the record in the syslog file (under /app/oracle/diag/syslog), but not in the XML file under audit_file_dest and not in the v$ view

setting 3 -

audit_file_dest                      string      /app/oracle/diag/adump
audit_sys_operations                 boolean     TRUE
audit_syslog_level                   string      LOCAL7.INFO
audit_trail                          string      OS
unified_audit_sga_queue_size         integer     1048576

1. no records under audit_file_dest (expected) and no records in v$ view(expected) for any audit (sys or other audit items like create/drop user, etc.)
2. ran 'create user, drop user' and all showed in the syslog file

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> On Behalf Of dmarc-noreply_at_freelists.org Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 1:26 PM To: jbeckstrom_at_gcrta.org; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: [External] Moving from database to OS audit trail

Thank you! We’ll test that out (and cross our fingers that the format is acceptable to the security folk).

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org<mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org<mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org>> On Behalf Of Jeffrey Beckstrom Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 11:39 AM To: oracle-l-freelist <oracle-l_at_freelists.org<mailto:oracle-l_at_freelists.org>>; Miller, Jay <Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com<mailto:Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com>> Subject: Re: [External] Moving from database to OS audit trail

We send our audit trail to xml audit trail files. We then query it from v$xml_audit_trail

Jeffrey Beckstrom
Lead Database Administrator
Information Technology Department
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44113

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We have just been given the requirement to move our auditing from database to OS and I was wondering how other people have handled obtaining the data which is currently easily available from dba_audit_trail.

For example things like getting a histogram of login times to see if there was a sudden surge in connect activity or finding the name of an app server which is locking an account by sending invalid passwords. Really easy now but with OS files? How are other people handling this?

I’m told all the information will be available in Splunk though I have no idea how easy that will be to access.

TIA,
Jay Miller