In 11g the likely task is BSLN_MAINTAIN_STATS_JOB, thanks for the feedback - that makes sense here - and thanks for the company name in the signature, that just makes me smile. Niall On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Jim Smith <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In message <7765c8971001250622w6456218bs62ad20c5a6ecb25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> writes > > Hi all >> >> Does anyone know how DBA_FEATURE_USAGE_STATISTICS is populated? I'm >> prepared for the "of course not because then people could circumvent >> the tests" answer. In particular I'm interested in how Advanced >> Security (the licensable option) is detected since it appears from my >> tests that creating external users using windows authentication (CREATE >> USER "OPS$DOMAIN\USERNAME" IDENTIFIED EXTERNALLY;) will trigger the >> detection of ASO. >> > > I looked into this a while ago. IIRC, local windows accounts don't trigger > it, but domain accounts do. It seems to count as GLOBAL authentication. > > There is a process which runs once a week or so which populates DFUS. I > couldn't find out what it was so I had to wait a week between every stage of > my testing. Needless to say I didn't take it very far. > -- > Jim Smith > Ponder Stibbons Limited > 251 Barcombe Avenue > London SW2 3BH > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info