Category: Audit Vault

Release of Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2 Bundle Patch 2

End of last week, Oracle has released the second Bundle Patch for Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2. I’ve missed the release due to public holiday here in Switzerland. 🙂 The patch can be downloaded as usual on Oracle Metalink as Patchset 19190265 for existing installations or on Oracle eDelivery as full installation image for […]

Error installing Audit Vault Agent 12.1.1 on AIX

The Problem During the setup of the current audit vault agent 12.1.1 on AIX, I’ve run into issues. Depending on the configuration of the AIX environment, the agent can not be installed at all. avagent@host:/u00/app/avagent/ [avagent] java -jar agent.jar -d /u00/app/avagent/product/avagent /u00/app/avagent/product/avagent/bin/agentctl[56]: LOGNAME: is read only Error while executing command: [sh, /u00/app/avagent/product/avagent/bin/agentctl, fixperms] avagent@host:/u00/app/avagent/ [avagent] […]

Use of DEFAULT_CLEANUP_INTERVAL

Following a question to the blog post Database Audit and Audit trail purging, I noticed something interesting about the DEFAULT_CLEANUP_INTERVAL parameter. On one hand, it is mandatory to initialize the audit trail and to define a DEFAULT_CLEANUP_INTERVAL, on the other hand, the parameter is not used at all. Oracle explains this in the MOS note Parameter […]

New Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall

In the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, it went under that Oracle had released a new version of Oracle Audit Vault respectively Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall. This weekend I found some time to take a first look into the new release. What’s New About a year ago Oracle released the Audit […]