A while ago I wrote a blog post about issues with some Oracle Unified Audit Policies see Help I lost my brand new Unified Audit Policy? In the meantime, the whole thing no longer looks so tragic. The problem is an official bug for which Oracle has already released a one-off patch. See Oracle Support Document 30769454.8 Bug 30769454 – Policy Created For Some Actions Are Not Showing In Audit_Unified_Policies.
Just realized that under some conditions audit policies are not shown in AUDIT_UNIFIED_POLICIES. This blog post does provide a few information and a test case.
I’ve just stumbled over an issue with the new checksum algorithm introduced with Oracle 12c. It seams that in certain situation the new SHA-2 function cause a memory leak. A search on My Oracle Support revealed that there is a Bug on AIX. See Bug 19451972 MEMEORY LEAKS WITH SHA512, SHA384, SHA256 ENTRIES IN SQLNET.CRYPTO_CHECKSUM […]
I’ve start using the AV command line interface to administer AVDF. I use the tool fairly often to start, stop and monitor the audit trails. But recently I ran in a small issue after a typo. I just want to start the audit trail on the ADUMP directory of a database. AVCLI> LIST TRAIL FOR […]
It is the second time that I run into this problem. Therefore, it is time to write a quick note before I struggle a third time. At some point adding a new secure targets no longer works and breaks with an OAV-46599. Initially I was a bit confused about the error. Because there haven’t been […]